Extremely pejorative hackerism for `diskless workstation', a class of
botches including the Sun 3/50 and other machines designed
exclusively to network with an expensive central disk server. These
combine all the disadvantages of timesharing with all the
disadvantages of distributed personal computers; typically, they
cannot even {boot} themselves without help (in the form of some kind
of {breath-of-life packet}) from the server.
[glossary]
[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {breath-of-life packet}]