/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 anY6502 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)