dickless workstation

2 definitions found

dickless workstation - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  dickless workstation
  
     <abuse> Extremely pejorative hackerism for "diskless workstation
     ".
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1995-03-28)
  

dickless workstation - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  dickless workstation
   n.
  
     Extremely pejorative hackerism for `diskless workstation', a class of
     botches including the Sun 3/50 and other machines designed
  exclusively
     to network with an expensive central disk server. These combine all
     the disadvantages of timesharing with all the disadvantages of
     distributed personal computers; typically, they cannot even boot
     themselves without help (in the form of some kind of breath-of-life packet
     ) from the server.