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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Necessity/presence of TSRs?
- Message-ID: <id.K0PU.0ME@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <9210271653.AA09380@ocdis01.oc.aflc.af.mil>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 18:48:21 GMT
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- In article <9210271653.AA09380@ocdis01.oc.aflc.af.mil> johnboyd@OCDIS01.OC.AFLC.AF.MIL (John Boyd;LAHDI;) writes:
- > Since Windows is an operating *environment*, and not an operating system,
- > still relying on DOS's rules, I presume you still must use TSRs to
- > accomplish some things. Are TSRs still around in OS/2? If not, how does
- > one accomplish some of the 'background' things that TSRs have been doing
- > all this time, i.e., print spoolers, screen savers, etc?
-
- I don't now about OS/2, but on UNIX workstations and Amigas you just run
- ordinary programs in the background to do this sort of thing.
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