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 System

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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.

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