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monty
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/montee/ , n. 1. [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously complex
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user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks. An example would
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be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for
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listing directories. The original monty was an infamous weather-reporting
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program, Monty the Amazing Weather Man, written at the USGS. Monty had a
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widget-packed X-window interface with over 200 buttons; and all monty
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actually did was files off the network. 2. [Great Britain; commonly
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capitalized as Monty or as the Full Monty ] 16 megabytes of memory, when
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fitted to an IBM-PC or compatible. A standard PC-compatible using the AT- or
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ISA-bus with a normal BIOS cannot access more than 16 megabytes of RAM.
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Generally used of a PC, Unix workstation, etc. to mean fully populated with
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memory, disk-space or some other desirable resource. See the World Wide
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Words article The Full Monty for discussion of the rather complex etymology
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that may lie behind this phrase. Compare American moby.
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