monty

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 is possibly derived from a TV commercial for
   Del Monte fruit juice, in which one of the characters insisted on
   "the full Del Monte".  Compare American {moby}.



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