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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 time-sharing 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.