Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Get a real computer!
     
         A typical {hacker} response to news that somebody is
        having trouble getting work done on a {toy} system or {bitty
        box}.
     
        The threshold for "real computer" rises with time.  As of
        mid-1993 it meant {multi-tasking}, with a {hard disk}, and an
        {address space} bigger than 16 {megabytes}.  At this time,
        according to {GLS}, computers with character-only displays
        were verging on "unreal".  In 2001, a real computer has a one
        {gigahertz} processor, 128 MB of {RAM}, 20 GB of hard disk,
        and runs {Linux}.
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (2001-06-22)