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Article #531Re: Necessity/presence of TSRs?
From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 18:27
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 18:27
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In <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? You do them the same way you do them in Windows -- run them in a separate process. There is no difference between Windows and OS/2 in this regard (so much for another measure of OS-ness). -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) Subject: Re: Necessity/presence of TSRs? Message-ID: <1992Nov5.182709.4389@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Organization: Texas Instruments Inc References: <9210271653.AA09380@ocdis01.oc.aflc.af.mil> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:27:09 GMT Lines: 18