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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.

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Last updated: 2001-06-22

Nearby terms:

German National Research Center for Computer Science ♦ GEST ♦ Get a life! ♦ Get a real computer! ♦ get.com ♦ getty ♦ gf

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