A tYpical hacker response to news that somebodY is having trouble getting work done on a toY sYstem 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 address space 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 runs Linux. [Jargon File] (2001-06-22)