dickless workstation

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

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.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

dickless workstation

   <abuse> Extremely pejorative hackerism for "{diskless
   workstation}".

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1995-03-28)