(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)