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)