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toaster

(jargon)

toaster - 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see elevator controller). "DWIM for an assembler? That'd be as silly as running Unix on your toaster!"

2. A very, very dumb computer. "You could run this program on any dumb toaster."

See bitty box, Get a real computer!, toy, beige toaster.

3. A Macintosh, especially the Classic Mac. Some hold that this is implied by sense 2.

4. A peripheral device. "I bought my box without toasters, but since then I've added two boards and a second disk drive".

This is not usually to be taken literally but, to show off the expansion capabilities of the Risc PC, Acorn Computers Ltd. built a seven-slice machine (which they called "the rocket-ship") and installed every imaginable peripheral. In a spare drive bay of the top slice they installed a toaster. This machine was exhibited at various shows where it attracted attention by occasionally ejecting a pizza.

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A toaster oven is an electric kitchen appliance designed to preheat frozen goods and toast slices of bread Consider some guidelines in buying one A toaster oven is an electric kitchen appliance designed to preheat frozen goods and toast slices of bread.

Toaster Ovens and Tips in Buying One by Dave Text / Food/cooking/nutrition community

2-Slice Toaster This is a relatively simply-designed toaster but there were two main things I liked about it.

Mrs Mop; Browned off with burnt or underdone toast? We've put ... by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)

Mrs Linley, 31, an estate agent, said: "When we went to open our presents and saw all the boxes were the same shape I thought, 'this is quite strange', and then we began to open them and it was toaster after toaster after toaster.

Meet the Brit couple who received 24 toasters as wedding gifts by Asian News International

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