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From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS puzzle #1
Message-ID: <45133@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 89 11:50:16 GMT
References: <238@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <552@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany NJ
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In article <552@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, tjr@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (thomas.j.roberts) writes:
> 
> 	[IMHO that was a very arrogant attitude on their part, and is merely 
> 	 one instance of why MS-DOS is so difficult to do serious applications
> 	 in (e.g. look at the TSR mess)].

To what extent Microsoft is responsible for the "TSR mess", I can
not say.  They have a very good and full explanation of how to
program TSR's in their Encylopedia.  However, most of the what
you call the TSR mess is due to poor programming.

Forrest Gehrke