In 1996 when this entry first entered the File, it was the typical
hacker response to news that somebody is having trouble getting work
done on a system that (a) was single-tasking, (b) had no hard disk,
or (c) had an address space smaller than 16 megabytes. In 2003
anything less powerful than a 500MHz Pentium with a multi-gigabyte
hard disk would probably be similarly written off. The threshold for
`real computer' rises with time. See {bitty box} and {toy}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {bitty box}{computron}{real operating system}{toaster}{toy}]