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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>dinosaur</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dink.html" title="dink"/><link rel="next" href="dinosaur-pen.html" title="dinosaur pen"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dinosaur</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dink.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dinosaur-pen.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="dinosaur"/><dt xmlns="" id="dinosaur"><b>dinosaur</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power. Used
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especially of old minis and mainframes, in contrast with newer
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microprocessor-based machines. In a famous quote from the 1998 Unix EXPO,
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Bill Joy compared the liquid-cooled mainframe in the massive IBM display
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with a grazing dinosaur “<span class="quote">with a truck outside pumping its bodily
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fluids through it</span>”. IBM was not amused. Compare
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<a href="../B/big-iron.html"><i class="glossterm">big iron</i></a>; see also <a href="../M/mainframe.html"><i class="glossterm">mainframe</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [IBM] A very conservative user; a
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