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• crudware: /kruhd'weir/ n. Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality {freeware} circulated by user's groups and BBS systems in the micro-hobbyist world.
  Yet *another* set of disk catalog utilities for {{MS-DOS}}?...
• BBS /B-B-S/ n. [common; abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System'] An electronic bulletin board system
  hat is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into topic groups....
• BBS: /B-B-S/ [abbreviation, `Bulletin Board System'] n.
  An electronic bulletin board system; that is, a message database where people can log in and leave broadcast messages for others grouped (typically) into {topic group}s....
• MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
  A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since....
• 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
  unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident....
• all-elbows: [MS-DOS] adj. 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
  unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident....
• beep n.,v. Syn. feep. This term is techspeak under MS-DOS and OS/2, and seems to be generally preferred among micro hobbyists.
• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...
• freeware n. [common] Free software, often written by enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, Usenet, or other electronic media.
  At one time, `freeware' was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman, the author of the well-known MS-DOS comm program PC-TALK III....