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Article #529Re: Necessity/presence of TSRs?
From: peter da silva
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 18:48
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 18:48
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In article <9210271653.AA09380@ocdis01.oc.aflc.af.mil> johnboyd@OCDIS01.OC.AFLC.AF.MIL (John Boyd;LAHDI;) writes:
> Since Windows is an operating *environment*, and not an operating system,
> still relying on DOS's rules, I presume you still must use TSRs to
> accomplish some things. Are TSRs still around in OS/2? If not, how does
> one accomplish some of the 'background' things that TSRs have been doing
> all this time, i.e., print spoolers, screen savers, etc?
I don't now about OS/2, but on UNIX workstations and Amigas you just run
ordinary programs in the background to do this sort of thing.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) Subject: Re: Necessity/presence of TSRs? Message-ID: <id.K0PU.0ME@ferranti.com> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <9210271653.AA09380@ocdis01.oc.aflc.af.mil> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 18:48:21 GMT Lines: 14