|
1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware. 2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often
in plural, footprints). See also
toeprint. 3. RAM footprint: The minimum
amount of RAM which an OS or other program takes; this figure gives one an
idea of how much will be left for other applications. How actively this
RAM is used is another matter entirely. Recent tendencies to featuritis
and software bloat can expand the RAM footprint of an OS to the point of
making it nearly unusable in practice. [This problem is, thankfully,
limited to operating systems so stupid that they don't do virtual memory --
ESR]
| 
