All-elbows

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  all-elbows
       
           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 {rude}ly 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}]
       
          (1995-02-21)