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dink
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/dink/ , adj. 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.