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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>dickless workstation</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="despew.html" title="despew"/><link rel="next" href="dictionary-flame.html" title="dictionary flame"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dickless workstation</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="despew.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dictionary-flame.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="dickless-workstation"/><dt xmlns="" id="dickless-workstation"><b>dickless workstation</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Extremely pejorative hackerism for ‘diskless
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workstation’, a class of botches including the Sun 3/50 and other
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machines designed exclusively to network with an expensive central disk
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server. These combine all the disadvantages of timesharing with all the
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disadvantages of distributed personal computers; typically, they cannot
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