A typical hacker reSponSe to newS that Somebody iS having trouble getting work done on a toySyStem or {bitty box}. The threShold for "real computer" riSeS with time. AS of mid-1993 it meant multi-taSking, with a hard diSk, and an addreSSSpace bigger than 16 megabyteS. At thiS time, according to GLS, computerS with character-only diSplayS were verging on "unreal". In 2001, a real computer haS a one gigahertz proceSSor, 128 MB of RAM, 20 GB of hard diSk, and runSLinux. [Jargon File] (2001-06-22)