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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>footprint</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="Foonly.html" title="Foonly"/><link rel="next" href="for-free.html" title="for free"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">footprint</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Foonly.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="for-free.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="footprint"/><dt xmlns="" id="footprint"><b>footprint</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often
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in plural, <span class="firstterm">footprints</span>). See also
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<a href="../T/toeprint.html"><i class="glossterm">toeprint</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="firstterm">RAM footprint</span>: The minimum
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amount of RAM which an OS or other program takes; this figure gives one an
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idea of how much will be left for other applications. How actively this
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RAM is used is another matter entirely. Recent tendencies to featuritis
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and software bloat can expand the RAM footprint of an OS to the point of
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making it nearly unusable in practice. [This problem is, thankfully,
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limited to operating systems so stupid that they don't do virtual memory --
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