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.