Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!sun13!prism!gt0178a From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: RAM disk. Message-ID: <14884@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 10 Oct 90 05:55:11 GMT References: Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 22 in article , bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) says: > 5. TSR's > The MS/DOS community developed these out of utter desparation due to > their single-tasking O/S and the way memory management was > brain-damaged from the start. See "job control". Of no merit. Wrong - unless you are using a windowing environment, and there are still plenty of glass tube unices out there. And even then, few windowing environments I've worked in can match the one or two keystroke responsive - ness of a good TSR. (Granted, what you're talking about *does* apply to the filter and os extension types of TSRs.) P.S. - Since we don't get the alt. groups here, I don't know if that (alt.religion.computers) is a real group, or just your idea of a joke, but thanx - my mailer choked on it the first time around. -- BURNS,JIM Georgia Institute of Technology, Box 30178, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt0178a Internet: gt0178a@prism.gatech.edu