from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
chicken head
n.
[Commodore] The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly
resembles a poultry part (within Commodore itself the logo was always
called chicken lips). Rendered in ASCII as `C='. With the arguable
exception of the {Amiga}, Commodore's machines were notoriously crocky
little {bitty box}es, albeit people have written multitasking
Unix-like operating systems with TCP/IP networking for them. Thus,
this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep? (the basis for the movie Blade Runner; the
novel is now sold under that title), in which a `chickenhead' is a
mutant with below-average intelligence.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
chicken head
<graphics, abuse> The {Commodore} Business Machines logo,
which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in {ASCII}
as "C=".
With the arguable exception of the {Amiga}, Commodore's
computers are notoriously crocky little {bitty box}es (see
also {PETSCII}). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip
K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the
basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold
under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with
below-average intelligence.
[{Jargon File}]
(2006-07-12)