Toaster : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Toaster	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Toaster
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toaster n someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture Synonym(s): toaster, wassailer a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Toaster \Toast"er\, n. 1. One who toasts. 2. A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
toaster n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller}). "{DWIM} for an assembler? That'd be as silly as running Unix on your toaster (http://www.phys.uu.nl/~beljaars/reddwarf/script/4/4.whi)!" 2. A very, very dumb computer. "You could run this program on any dumb toaster." See {bitty box}, {Get a real computer!}, {toy}, {beige toaster}. 3. A Macintosh, esp. the Classic Mac. Some hold that this is implied by sense 2. 4. A peripheral device. "I bought my box without toasters, but since then I've added two boards and a second disk drive." 5. A specialized computer used as an appliance. See {web toaster}, {video toaster}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
toaster 1. The archetypal really stupid {application} for an {embedded} {microprocessor} controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller}). "{DWIM} for an assembler? That'd be as silly as running {Unix} on your toaster!" 2. A very, very dumb computer. "You could run this program on any dumb toaster." See {bitty box}, {Get a real computer!}, {toy}, {beige toaster}. 3. A {Macintosh}, especially the {Classic Mac}. Some hold that this is implied by sense 2. 4. A peripheral device. "I bought my box without toasters, but since then I've added two boards and a second disk drive". This is not usually to be taken literally but, to show off the expansion capabilities of the {Risc PC}, {Acorn Computers Ltd.} built a seven-slice machine (which they called "the rocket-ship") and installed every imaginable peripheral. In a spare {drive bay} of the top slice they installed a toaster. This machine was exhibited at various shows where it attracted attention by occasionally ejecting a pizza. [{Jargon File}] (1997-07-18)