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)