hthomas@presto.irisa.fr (Henry Thomas) (04/08/90)
Hello, I'm new to PC groups and all is ok for ftp and so on. But I don't understand what TSR means. Is it Turbo (Pascal ) SouRces ? For instance, on SIMTEL20 file <PD1>:<MSDOS.TURBOPAS>"Go TSR in Turbo Pas 3.0". I'm baffled ! Thanks for any help. Henry. -- Henry Thomas - API Team Henry.Thomas@irisa.fr (hthomas) IRISA Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu 35042 RENNES CEDEX - FRANCE Phone: (+33)99 36 20 00 Fax: (+33)99 38 38 32 Telex: UNIRISA 950 473F
levitte@garbo.bion.kth.se (Tommy Levitte) (04/08/90)
In article <1990Apr8.123708.15091@irisa.fr> hthomas@presto.irisa.fr (Henry Thomas) writes:
Henry> Sender: news@irisa.fr
Henry> Hello, I'm new to PC groups and all is ok for ftp and so on. But I
Henry> don't understand what TSR means. Is it Turbo (Pascal ) SouRces ?
Henry> For instance, on SIMTEL20 file <PD1>:<MSDOS.TURBOPAS>"Go TSR in Turbo Pas 3.0".
Henry> I'm baffled !
Henry> Thanks for any help.
TSR = Terminate and Stay Resident.
TSR programs are programs which get loaded into memory, and stay there to run
in the background. Usually they are activated with some specific keystroke or
some interrupt.
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!---------------------------------------------------------------------------!donegan@stanton.UUCP (Steven P. Donegan) (04/12/90)
In article <LEVITTE.90Apr8173131@garbo.bion.kth.se>, levitte@garbo.bion.kth.se (Tommy Levitte) writes: > > TSR = Terminate and Stay Resident. > Due to the nature of problems that occur with TSR's my definition of TSR is: Terminate and Stay Radioactive This is intended as a smiley - I hate Maybe SomeDay an Operating System and feel all these attempts to turn a sows ear into a silk purse via nifty programming tricks like TSR's should be avoided. If you need to run MSDOS programs then don't pervert your systems basic design by TSR's. You WILL eventually regret doing so. If you want a multi-tasking or event-driven system on your hardware then buy one that was designed for your requirements. -- Steven P. Donegan (stanton!donegan) Area Telecommunications Engineer Corporate Telecommunications Services Western Digital Corporation The opinions expressed here are mine.
kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) (04/15/90)
In article <4080@stanton.UUCP> donegan@stanton.UUCP (Steven P. Donegan) writes: >In article <LEVITTE.90Apr8173131@garbo.bion.kth.se>, levitte@garbo.bion.kth.se (Tommy Levitte) writes: >If you need to run MSDOS >programs then don't pervert your systems basic design by TSR's. You WILL >eventually regret doing so. If you want a multi-tasking or event-driven >system on your hardware then buy one that was designed for your requirements. Even though this was originally intended as a :-), I felt I would respond. Many TSR's do not try to provide pseudo-multitasking. For example, Borland's Sidekick. You can pop up a calculator, calendar, telephone directory and dialer, ascii table, or an editor with a couple of special keys. This provides (for the poor MSDOS user) what users of windowing systems have. I find that most of the time when I pop up one of these utilities, I don't really need multitasking capabilities. Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6 kjh@usc.edu ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh