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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bitty 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="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bits.html" title="bits"/><link rel="next" href="bixie.html" title="bixie"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bitty box</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bits.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bixie.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bitty-box"/><dt xmlns="" id="bitty-box"><b>bitty box</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/bit´ee boks/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to
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cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software
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on or for it. Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only
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personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80,
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or IBM PC. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Pejorative] More generally, the opposite of ‘real
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computer’ (see <a href="../G/Get-a-real-computer-.html"><i class="glossterm">Get a real computer!</i></a>). See
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also <a href="../M/mess-dos.html"><i class="glossterm">mess-dos</i></a>, <a href="../T/toaster.html"><i class="glossterm">toaster</i></a>, and
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<a href="../T/toy.html"><i class="glossterm">toy</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bits.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bixie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bits </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bixie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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