Re: OT: Yet Another Unhappy Customer for Vista

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:56:36 -0400, krw <krw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There was no such rule, Dimbulb. There were *many* TSRs that would
multitask under DOS. They weren't too difficult to write either;
hook the timer interrupt and to a terminate (INT2h, IIRC) with stay
resident.


It seems that you ALSO don't know the meaning of terms used in Computer
Science.

A TSR is NOT a separate task.

You can worm and squirm all you want, KiethKeithStain, but you won't
get anywhere until you actually learn about what you are spewing about.
.

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