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killer micro
(foldoc) | killer micro
[Popularised by Eugene Brooks] A microprocessor-based
machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer
performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the
attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the
downsizers. Used especially of RISC architectures.
The popularity of the phrase "attack of the killer micros" is
doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer
Tomatoes" (one of the canonical examples of
so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has even more
flavour now that killer micros have gone on the offensive not
just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within
massively parallel computers).
[Jargon File]
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killer micro
(jargon) | killer micro
n.
[popularized by Eugene Brooks c.1990] A microprocessor-based machine that
infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often
heard in “No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!”, the battle
cry of the downsizers.
The popularity of the phrase ‘attack of the killer micros’ is doubtless
reinforced by the title of the movie Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes (one of
the canonical examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has
even more flavor now that killer micros have gone on the offensive not
just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively
parallel computers).
[2002 update: Eugene Brooks was right. Since this term first entered the
Jargon File in 1990, the minicomputer has effectively vanished, the {
mainframe} sector is in deep and apparently terminal decline, and even the
supercomputer business has contracted into a smaller niche. It's networked
killer micros as far as the eye can see. —ESR]
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