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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dink \Dink\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Trim; neat. [Scot.] --Burns. -- {Dink"ly}, adv From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dink \Dink\, v. t. To deck; -- often with out or up [Scot.] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: dink /dink/ adj 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}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: 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}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-31)
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