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Article #820Re: Need help on TSR's
From: Raymond van der Laan
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:35
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 07:35
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>Time is cheap. Knowledge, experience, and expertise is the real currency.
You're obviously a student. Time isn't always cheap, and sometimes
things just need to be done. That's why its useful to use the knowledge
other people have. This is especially true if the project you're working
is only done once. Besides, were would all the 'open systems' be if
everyone (re)starts to make their own databases, networks, gui's etc. ???
Furthermore, I think it's a shame that the subject of TSR's is treated
so poorly on the years by compiler-packages and MS-DOS books. TSR's are
essential to DOS, so there should have been a TSR-API right from the
start. See Mac: almost all you have to do to make a DA (equiv. of TSR in
the early days) is click the 'DA' button on your compiler-settings
dialogbox.
I think spending time to such trivial things as making TSR's, which take
away the attention of the real issue (i.e. solving a problem), is
something for beardy hackers who spend their nights behind the tube
with a coffee-infusion in their arms.
--
Raymond van der Laan Email: sun4nl!media01!rla
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This is what we do now.'
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!media03!rla From: rla@media03.UUCP (Raymond van der Laan) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Need help on TSR's Message-ID: <2756@media03.UUCP> Date: 17 Apr 92 07:35:03 GMT References: <oddt.4@sofus.dhhalden.no> <1992Apr15.033850.16536@uwm.edu> <1992Apr15.235445.9454@sequent.com> <1992Apr16.081023.3834@uwm.edu> Reply-To: rla@media03.UUCP (Raymond van der Laan) Organization: Mediasystemen, Netherlands Lines: 28