Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!pollux.usc.edu!kjh From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: What TSR mean ? Message-ID: <24101@usc.edu> Date: 15 Apr 90 03:25:21 GMT References: <1990Apr8.123708.15091@irisa.fr> <4080@stanton.UUCP> Sender: news@usc.edu Organization: EE-Systems, Univ. of So. Calif., Los Angeles Lines: 18 In article <4080@stanton.UUCP> donegan@stanton.UUCP (Steven P. Donegan) writes: >In article , 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