dickless workstation: n. Extremely pejorative hackerism for
`diskless workstation', a class of botches including the Sun 3/50
and other machines designed exclusively to network with an expensive
central disk server. These combine all the disadvantages of
time-sharing with all the disadvantages of distributed personal
computers; typically, they cannot even boot themselves without
help (in the form of some kind of breath-of-life packet) from the
server.
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