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}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-10-31)