get a real computer!

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get a real computer! - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Get a real computer!
  
     <jargon> 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)
  

get a real computer! - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Get a real computer!
   imp.
  
     Typical hacker response to news that somebody is having trouble
     getting work done on a system that (a) is single-tasking, (b) has no
     hard disk, or (c) has an address space smaller than 16 megabytes.
  This
     is as of early 1996; note that the threshold for `real computer'
  rises
     with time. See bitty box and toy.