machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer
performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the
attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the
downsizers. Used especially of
RISC architectures.
The popularity of the phrase "attack of the killer micros" is
doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer
so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has even more
flavour now that killer micros have gone on the offensive not
just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within