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)