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monty


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  monty  /mon'tee/  n.  1.  [US  Geological  Survey]  A  program  with  a 
  ludicrously  complex  user  interface  written  to  perform  extremely  trivial 
  tasks.  An  example  would  be  a  menu-driven,  button  clicking,  pulldown 
  pop-up  windows  program  for  listing  directories.  The  original  monty  was  an 
  infamous  weather-reporting  program,  Monty  the  Amazing  Weather  Man,  written 
  at  the  USGS.  Monty  had  a  widget-packed  X-window  interface  with  over  200 
  buttons;  and  all  monty  actually  _did_  was  {FTP}  files  off  the  network. 
  2.  [Great  Britain;  commonly  capitalized  as  `Monty'  or  as  `the  Full 
  Monty']  16  megabytes  of  memory,  when  fitted  to  an  IBM-PC  or  compatible. 
  A  standard  PC-compatible  using  the  AT-  or  ISA-bus  with  a  normal  BIOS 
  cannot  access  more  than  16  megabytes  of  RAM.  Generally  used  of  a  PC 
  Unix  workstation,  etc  to  mean  `fully  populated  with'  memory,  disk-space 
  or  some  other  desirable  resource.  This  usage  may  be  related  to  a  TV 
  commercial  for  Del  Monte  fruit  juice,  in  which  one  of  the 
  characters  insisted  on  "the  full  Del  Monte"; 
  but  see  the  World  Wide  Words  article  "The  Full  Monty" 
  (http://clever.net/quinion/words/articles/monty.htm)  for  discussion  of 
  the  rather  complex  etymology  that  may  lie  behind  this  Compare  American 
  {moby}. 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  monty 
 
  /mon'tee/  [US  Geological  Survey]  A  program  with  a  ludicrously 
  complex  user  interface  written  to  perform  extremely  trivial 
  tasks.  An  example  would  be  a  menu-driven,  button  clicking, 
  pulldown  pop-up  windows  program  for  listing  directories.  The 
  original  monty  was  an  infamous  weather-reporting  program, 
  Monty  the  Amazing  Weather  Man,  written  at  the  USGS.  Monty  had 
  a  widget-packed  X-window  interface  with  over  200  buttons;  and 
  all  monty  actually  *did*  was  {FTP}  files  off  the  network. 
 
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