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BITTY BOX

Specialty Definition: BITTY BOX

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Computing

Bitty box /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it. Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC. 2. [Pejorative] More generally, the opposite of `real computer' (see Get a real computer!). See also mess-dos, toaster, and toy. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BITTY BOX

Specialty definitions using "BITTY BOX": munchkin. (references)

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Anagrams: BITTY BOX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-i-o-t-t-x-y"

-3 letters: bitty.

-4 letters: bitt, bott, boxy, obit, toby, toit.

-5 letters: bib, bio, bit, bob, bot, box, boy, obi, oxy, tit, tot, toy, yob.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BITTY BOX


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 49 54 54 59      42 4F 58

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001001 01010100 01010100 01011001 00100000 01000010 01001111 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#84 &#84 &#89 &#32 &#66 &#79 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0054 0054 0059      0042 004F 0058

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36435454592364958

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