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pizza box
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n. [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun)
desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled
pattern that looks like air holes. Two-meg single-platter removable disk
packs used to be called pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was
referred to as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days
just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.