Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ccicpg!conexch!stanton!donegan From: donegan@stanton.UUCP (Steven P. Donegan) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: What TSR mean ? Summary: TSR, SMILEY Message-ID: <4080@stanton.UUCP> Date: 11 Apr 90 18:28:02 GMT References: <1990Apr8.123708.15091@irisa.fr> Organization: Stanton Public Domain Systems, Stanton, Ca. Lines: 22 In article , 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.