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chicken head: n. [Commodore] The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly
resembles a poultry part (within Commodore itself the logo was always
called chicken lips). Rendered in
ASCII as ‘C=’. With the arguable exception of the
Amiga, Commodore's machines were notoriously crocky
little bitty boxes, albeit people have written
multitasking Unix-like operating systems with TCP/IP networking for them.
Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the basis for the movie
Blade Runner; the novel is now sold under that
title), in which a ‘chickenhead’ is a mutant with below-average
intelligence.
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