Penguin
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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