[Sun] The largish thin box housing the electronics in (especially Sun ) desktop workstation s, so named because of its size and shape and the dimpled pattern that looks like air holes.
Two megabyte 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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