all-elbows
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Definitions of all-elbows word
- noun Technical meaning of 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. 1
- adjective all-elbows (computing) of a program that steals whatever resources it needs without consideration to other tasks. 0
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