footprint
1. <jargon, hardware> The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of
hardware.
2. <jargon, storage> The amount of disk or RAM taken up by a program or
file.
3. (IBM) The audit trail left by a crashed program (often "footprints").
See also toeprint.
[Jargon File]
(1995-04-25)
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