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Toaster : (noun)
1: a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread
2: someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the
health of success of someone or some venture [syn: wassailer]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Toaster : \Toast"er\, n.
1. One who toasts.
2. A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Toaster :
1. The archetypal really stupid application for an
embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments
that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see
elevator_controller).__"{DWIM">elevator controller). "{DWIM for an assembler? That'd be
as silly as running Unix on your toaster!"
2. A very, very dumb computer. "You could run this program on
any dumb toaster."
See bitty box, Get a real computer!, toy, beige
toaster.
3. A Macintosh, especially the Classic Mac. Some hold
that this is implied by sense 2.
4. A peripheral device. "I bought my box without toasters,
but since then I've added two boards and a second disk drive".
This is not usually to be taken literally but, to show off the
expansion capabilities of the Risc PC, Acorn Computers
Ltd. built a seven-slice machine (which they called "the
rocket-ship") and installed every imaginable peripheral. In a
spare drive bay of the top slice they installed a toaster.
This machine was exhibited at various shows where it attracted
attention by occasionally ejecting a pizza.
[{Jargon File]
(1997-07-18)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Toaster : n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded
microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a
scheme is inappropriate technology (but see elevator controller).
"{DWIM for an assembler? That'd be as silly as running Unix on your
toaster (http://www.phys.uu.nl/~beljaars/reddwarf/script/4/4.whi)!" 2. A
very, very dumb computer. "You could run this program on any dumb
toaster." See bitty box, Get a real computer!, toy, beige
toaster. 3. A Macintosh, esp. a Mac in the original unitary case. Some
hold that this is implied by sense 2. 4. A peripheral device. "I bought
my box without toasters, but since then I've added two boards and a
second disk drive." 5. A specialized computer used as an appliance. See
web toaster, video toaster.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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