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OCR: (1) Resident/Reentrant programs. Resident/Recatrant programs This is a discussion of what resident/reentrant programs are. It is entirely my understanding of then, and thus may be completely wrong. I an aware that many people have very strange conception of reality when it comes to computers (eg: complaining that C doesn't have screen handling functions, or saying that using a report-generator is "real" progranaing), and I no exception. Note that there are two other sorts of "resident" programs that I know of. On the Amiga, there are "Launch and Stay Resident (LSR)" programs, which are the chack type (eg: PopCLI, AskTask, Virus_Checker), On other nachines there are "Terminate and Stay Resident (TSK)" programs, which are tricks to emulate multi-tasking, and therefore not useful on the Iniga ...