mickey mouse program

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

mickey mouse program
 n.

   North American equivalent of a {noddy} (that is, trivial) program.
   Doesn't necessarily have the belittling connotations of mainstream
   slang "Oh, that's just mickey mouse stuff!"; sometimes trivial
   programs can be very useful.

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

mickey mouse program

   <jargon> The North American equivalent of a "{noddy} program",
   i.e. trivial.  The term doesn't necessarily have the belittling
   connotations of mainstream slang "Oh, that's just mickey mouse
   stuff!"; sometimes trivial programs can be very useful.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1995-04-10)

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