footprint

<jargon, hardware>

1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.

<jargon, storage>

2. The amount of disk or RAM taken up by a program or file.

3. (IBM) The audit trail left by a crashed program (often "footprints").

See also toeprint.

[Jargon File]

Last updated: 1995-04-25

Nearby terms:

Fools' Lisp ♦ Foonly ♦ FOOP ♦ foot-net ♦ footprint ♦ for ♦ fora ♦ FORC ♦ Force

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