All-elbows
all-elbows
jargon
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)
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