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.

