Get a real computer!
<jargon> A typical
hacker response to news that somebody is having trouble getting work done on a
toy system or
bitty box.
The threshold for "real computer" rises with time.
As of mid-1993 it meant multi-tasking, with a
hard disk, and an
address space bigger than 16 megabytes.
At this time, according to
GLS, computers with character-only displays were verging on "unreal".
In 2001, a real computer has a one
gigahertz processor, 128 MB of
RAM, 20 GB of hard disk, and runs
Linux.
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