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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Necessity/presence of TSRs?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.182709.4389@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <9210271653.AA09380@ocdis01.oc.aflc.af.mil>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:27:09 GMT
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- In <9210271653.AA09380@ocdis01.oc.aflc.af.mil> johnboyd@OCDIS01.OC.AFLC.AF.MIL (John Boyd;LAHDI;) writes:
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- >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?
-
- You do them the same way you do them in Windows -- run them in a
- separate process. There is no difference between Windows and OS/2 in
- this regard (so much for another measure of OS-ness).
-
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- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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