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dink - /dink/ Said of a machine that has the bitty box nature; a machine too small to be worth bothering with - sometimes the system you're currently forced to work on. First heard from an MIT hacker working on a CP/M system with 64K, in reference to any 6502 system, then from fans of 32 bit architectures about 16-bit machines. "GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine." Probably derived from mainstream "dinky", which isn't sufficiently pejorative.

See macdink.


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MILLIYET -------- SAMAST THREATENS DINKS The tension escalated in the tenth hearing of the Dink case.
Properties on the Quayside are usually snapped up by DINKS - Dual Income and No Kids - executives and empty nesters who have retired and whose children have left the large family home.
A decline in the size of the average household, including an increase in the numbers of people living alone and of DINKS (double income no kids), has meant that the burden of household care has increased for many individuals.
 
 
 
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