Monty

2 definitions found

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

  monty /mon'tee/ n. 1. [US Geological Survey] A program with a
     ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial
     tasks. An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown,
     pop-up windows program for listing directories. The original monty was
     an infamous weather-reporting program, Monty the Amazing Weather Man,
     written at the USGS. Monty had a widget-packed X-window interface with


     over 200 buttons; and all monty actually _did_ was {FTP} files off the
     network. 2. [Great Britain; commonly capitalized as `Monty' or as `the
     Full Monty'] 16 megabytes of memory, when fitted to an IBM-PC or
     compatible. A standard PC-compatible using the AT- or ISA-bus with a
     normal BIOS cannot access more than 16 megabytes of RAM. Generally used
     of a PC, Unix workstation, etc. to mean `fully populated with' memory,
     disk-space or some other desirable resource. See the World Wide Words
     article "The Full Monty"
     (http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/monty.htm) for discussion of the
     rather complex etymology that may lie behind this phrase. Compare
     American {moby}.
  
  

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

  monty
       
          /mon'tee/ [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously
          complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial
          tasks.  An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking,
          pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories.  The
          original monty was an infamous weather-reporting program,
          Monty the Amazing Weather Man, written at the USGS.  Monty had
          a widget-packed X-window interface with over 200 buttons; and
          all monty actually *did* was {FTP} files off the network.
       
          [{Jargon File}]