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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>monty</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="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="monstrosity.html" title="monstrosity"/><link rel="next" href="Moof.html" title="Moof"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">monty</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="monstrosity.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Moof.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="monty"/><dt xmlns="" id="monty"><b>monty</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mon´tee/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously complex user
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interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks. An example would be
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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 <span class="emphasis"><em>did</em></span> was files off the network. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Great Britain; commonly capitalized as <span class="firstterm">Monty</span> or as <span class="firstterm">the Full
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Monty</span>] 16 megabytes of memory, when fitted to an IBM-PC or
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compatible. A standard PC-compatible using the AT- or ISA-bus with a
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normal BIOS cannot access more than 16 megabytes of RAM. Generally used of
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a PC, Unix workstation, etc. to mean <span class="firstterm">fully
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populated with</span> memory, disk-space or some other desirable
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resource. See the World Wide Words article <a href="http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/monty.htm" target="_top"> “<span class="quote">The Full
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Monty</span>”</a> for discussion of the rather complex etymology that
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may lie behind this phrase. Compare American
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