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bitty box
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/bitee boks/ , n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable
as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing
software on or for it. Especially used of small, obsolescent,
single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne,
Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC. 2. [Pejorative] More generally, the
opposite of real computer (see Get a real computer! ). See also mess-dos ,
toaster , and toy.