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• ame-day service: n. Ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to {{MS-DOS}} system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute).
  Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not {well-behaved}....
• 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 system
  unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident....
• all-elbows: [MS-DOS] adj. Of a TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) IBM PC program, such as the N pop-up calendar and calculator utilities that circulate on {BBS} system
  unsociable. Used to describe a program that rudely steals the resources that it needs without considering that other TSRs may also be resident....
• MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
  A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since....
• ill-behaved adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
  2. Software that bypasses the defined OS interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software....
• MS-DOS /M-S-dos/ n. [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] A clone of CP/M for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson at Seattle Computer Produc
  who called the original QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and is said to have regretted it ever since....
• ill-behaved: adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
  2. Software that bypasses the defined {OS} interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software....
• hog n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp.
  hose which noticeably degrade interactive response....
• hog: n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far more than their share of a system's resources, esp.
  hose which noticeably degrade interactive response....