< jargon > (From the mainstream "lost his marbles") The minimum needed to build your way further up some hierarchy of tools or abstractions. After a bad system crash , you need to determine if the machine has enough marbles to come up on its own, or enough marbles to allow a rebuild from backups , or if you need to rebuild from scratch. "This compiler doesn't even have enough marbles to compile hello, world ."
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(1998-05-21)