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dickless workstation
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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n. Extremely pejorative hackerism for diskless workstation , a class of
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botches including the Sun 3/50 and other machines designed exclusively to
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network with an expensive central disk server. These combine all the
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disadvantages of timesharing with all the disadvantages of distributed
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personal computers; typically, they cannot even boot themselves without help
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(in the form of some kind of breath-of-life packet ) from the server.
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