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Any hardware requiring raised flooring and special power. Used especially of old minicomputers and mainframes, in contrast with newer microprocessor-based machines. In a famous quote from the 1988 [Unix] EXPO, Bill Joy compared the liquid-cooled mainframe in the massive [IBM] display with a grazing [Dinosaur] "''with a truck outside pumping its bodily fluids through it''". [IBM] was not amused.%%%%%% From: http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=dinosaur
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