/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)