/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/MSyStem with 64K, in reference to any 6502SyStem, 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)