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pizza box n.

[Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in

(especially Sun) desktop workstations, so named because of its

size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air

holes.

Two meg single-platter removable disk packs used to be called

pizzas, and the huge drive they were stuck into was referred to

as a pizza oven. It's an index of progress that in the old days

just the disk was pizza-sized, while now the entire computer

is.

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