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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>pizza box</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="pixel-sort.html" title="pixel sort"/><link rel="next" href="plaid-screen.html" title="plaid screen"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">pizza box</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pixel-sort.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plaid-screen.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="pizza-box"/><dt xmlns="" id="pizza-box"><b>pizza box</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially
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Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its size and shape and the
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dimpled pattern that looks like air holes.</p><p>Two-meg single-platter removable disk packs used to be called pizzas,
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and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to as a pizza oven.
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It's an index of progress that in the old days just the disk was
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pizza-sized, while now the entire computer is.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pixel-sort.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="plaid-screen.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pixel sort </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> plaid screen</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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