Footprint

1. <jargon, hardware> The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.

2. <jargon, storage> The amount of disk or RAM taken up by a program or file.

3. (IBM) The audit trail left by a crashed program (often "footprints").

See also toeprint.

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