full-screen
(fu^l' skrEn') adj.
in a user interface style that uses the video display as an array of text characters, with different lines on the display dedicated to different aspects of the user interface. The full-screen user interface style predominated in the 1980s after video display terminals became commonplace. A command line, message line, selection codes, line numbers, line commands, and function keys are common elements of a full-screen user interface. This style was characteristic of MS-DOS applications and was the major influence on the early user interface style of the SAS System, most notably in display manager and SAS/FSP. Since the mid 1980s, the full-screen user interface style has gradually given way to the windowing user interface style.
also, full screen.