[geeks] DOS IS Ok....unix is better.

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Fri Jun 7 07:06:56 CDT 2002


> They were called TSRs because the original program was no longer running.
> Aside from its hooks it had completely relinquished control to DOS and
> whatever program might be loaded afterwards.  DOS was single-tasking.
> 
> The only way the TSR would run code after termination was if the running
> program touched on the of the hooks that the TSR had installed before
> terminating.
> 

Oh, ok - now I understand.   Sounds broken to me :)

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Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com



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