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 rudelY 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)