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From: muselikj@spock (Jiri Muselik)
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Subject: Re: TSR's with no assembly language
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Date: 9 Apr 90 13:10:17 GMT
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In article <21531@nuchat.UUCP> seven@nuchat.UUCP (David Paulsen) writes:
>And now, from the Believe It Or Don't file...
>
>I recall an article in _PC Magazine_ a few months ago that reviews
>something called POP BASIC, which is itself a TSR.  In other words,
>a memory resident BASIC interpreter available at all times, triggered
>by a hot key.  While not as robust an environment as the other BASICs
>reviewed in that same issue, POP BASIC did have one interesting feature:
>it could create stand-alone TSRs.  That's right, type in a weasely li'l
>10-line program (I guess) and punch the magic button (or run it thru
>the magic compiler, or mumble the magic words, or scrifice that
>virgin you've been saving..) and out comes your program, but in
>a ready-to-use TSR form.  At least that's what the reviewer thought.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

There is nothing magic about adding an interrupt call for TSR anywhere.
I haven't done this (I am using Turbo Pascal for my TSR's) but
even TURBO BASIC offers access to interrupts and virtual registers, so if you
intend to use BASIC, you may consider this as well. It does not inject a
TSR call automatically but it is solid as BASIC could be [ :-)].

In any case - if you are going to play around with TSRs, it is more than
likely that any good handbook on interrupts will become a necessity regardless
if you are using assembler or high level language.

>
>Intriguing, to say the least.  Anyone even SEEN this package?  I think
                                            ^^^^
                                            Sorry, can't help here.
>the retail price was <$100.
                       ^^^^^
                       TB sells for something like $80 (possibly less).
>
>David
>

...Jiri
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A friend of state-of-the-art,
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