Found 2 hits - Term: all-elbows, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
all-elbows adj. ms-dos of a tsr terminate-and-stay-resident ibm pc
program, such as the n pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that
circulate on bbs systems: unsociable. used to describe a program that
rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other
tsrs may also be resident. one particularly common form of rudeness is
lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard interrupt. see
rude, also mess-dos.
see also:
bbs rude mess-dos
- [2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
all-elbows
said of a tsr terminate-and-stay-resident
mess-dos program, such as the n pop-up calendar and
calculator utilities that circulate on bbs systems:
unsociable. used to describe a program that rudely steals
the resources that it needs without considering that other
tsrs may also be resident. one particularly common form of
rudeness is lock-up due to programs fighting over the keyboard
interrupt.
jargon file
1995-02-21
see also:
tsr mess-dos bbs rude jargon file
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