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.
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