3 definitions found
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
marbles
n : a children's game played with little balls made of a hard
substance (as glass)
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
marbles pl.n. [from mainstream "lost all his/her marbles"] The
minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or
abstractions. After a bad system crash, you need to determine if the
machine has enough marbles to come up on its own or enough marbles to
allow a rebuild from backups, or if you need to rebuild from scratch.
"This compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to compile {hello world}."
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
marbles
(From the mainstream "lost his marbles") The minimum
needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or
abstractions. After a bad system {crash}, you need to
determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its
own or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from {backups}, or
if you need to rebuild from scratch. "This {compiler} doesn't
even have enough marbles to compile {hello, world}."
[{Jargon File}]
(1998-05-21)
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