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dickless workstation: n. 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.
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