well-behaved adj.
1. [primarily MS-DOS] Said of
software conforming to system interface guidelines and standards.
Well-behaved software uses the operating system to do chores such
as keyboard input, allocating memory and drawing graphics. Oppose
ill-behaved. 2. Software that does its job quietly and
without counterintuitive effects. Esp. said of software having
an interface spec sufficiently simple and well-defined that it can
be used as a tool by other software. See cat. 3. Said
of an algorithm that doesn't crash or blow up, even when
given pathological input. Implies that the stability of the
algorithm is intrinsic, which makes this somewhat different from
bulletproof.
1. [primarily MS-DOS] Said of
software conforming to system interface guidelines and standards.
Well-behaved software uses the operating system to do chores such
as keyboard input, allocating memory and drawing graphics. Oppose
ill-behaved. 2. Software that does its job quietly and
without counterintuitive effects. Esp. said of software having
an interface spec sufficiently simple and well-defined that it can
be used as a tool by other software. See cat. 3. Said
of an algorithm that doesn't crash or blow up, even when
given pathological input. Implies that the stability of the
algorithm is intrinsic, which makes this somewhat different from
bulletproof.
Related:
- well-behaved: adj. 1. [primarily {{MS-DOS}}] Said of software
conforming to system interface guidelines and standards.
Well-behaved software uses the operating system to... - 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... - 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... - pathological adj.
1. [scientific computation] Used of a
data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input,
esp. one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever... - pathological: adj. 1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set
that is grossly atypical of normal expected input,
esp. one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever... - Helen Keller mode: n. 1. State of a hardware or software system
that is deaf,
dumb, and blind, i.e., accepting no input and generating... - Helen Keller mode n.
1. State of a hardware or software
system that is deaf,
dumb, and blind, i.e., accepting no input and generating... - crash
1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often
said of the system (q.v.
sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term... - MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together...
