Dink

/dink/ Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with - sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on.

First heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32 bit architectures about 16-bit machines.

"GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine."

Probably derived from mainstream "dinky", which isn't sufficiently pejorative.

See macdink.

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