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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  marbles 
  n  :  a  children's  game  played  with  little  balls  made  of  a  hard 
  substance  (as  glass) 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  marbles  pl.n.  [from  mainstream  "lost  all  his/her  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}." 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  marbles 
 
    (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}." 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
  (1998-05-21) 
 
 




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