Get a real computer!

Get a real computer!

(jargon)A typical hacker response to news that somebody ishaving trouble getting work done on a toy system or bitty box.

The threshold for "real computer" rises with time. As ofmid-1993 it meant multi-tasking, with a hard disk, and anaddress space bigger than 16 megabytes. At this time,according to GLS, computers with character-only displayswere verging on "unreal". In 2001, a real computer has a onegigahertz processor, 128 MB of RAM, 20 GB of hard disk,and runs Linux.