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]Last updated: 1995-02-21
Nearby terms:
al-Khwarizmi ♦ Allegro ♦ all-elbows ♦ ALLIANCE ♦ Allman style ♦ allow-none
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