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  Get a real computer!
       
           A typical hacker response to news that somebody is
          having trouble getting work done on a toy system or bitty
          box.
       
          The threshold for "real computer" rises with time.  As of
          mid-1993 it meant multi-tasking, with a hard disk, and an
          address space bigger than 16 megabytes.  At this time,
          according to GLS, computers with character-only displays
          were verging on "unreal".  In 2001, a real computer has a one
          gigahertz processor, 128 MB of RAM, 20 GB of hard disk,
          and runs Linux.
       
          [{Jargon File]
       
          (2001-06-22)
       
       

  Get a real computer! imp. Typical hacker response to news that somebody
     is having trouble getting work done on a system that (a) is
     single-tasking, (b) has no hard disk, or (c) has an address space
     smaller than 16 megabytes. This is as of early 1996; note that the
     threshold for `real computer' rises with time. See bitty box and
     toy.