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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:33:00 CST
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- From: Richard Warwick <WARWICKR@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: TSR's and Windows
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- DATE SENT: 31-DEC-1992 15:21:48
- >OK, so I'm reading the messages about using the various memory
- >manager (Not very carefully, mind you, I'm not having any problems.)
- >and I keep noticing people pointing out '... if you want to load
- >your TSR's high ...' and I think to myself 'WHY?' Hey, I'm using
- >Windows, I don't NEED TSR's! Am I missing something here? Unless
- >you are still mucking about with some archaic DOS programs, why
- >the heck would anyone want a TSR? ... or am I missing something.
- >Louis
-
- along with the tsr's some others have mentioned, a few of us live with
- (and sometimes in spite of :-) ) a network. Most network drivers -
- including, if i'm not mistaken, Microsoft NDIS drivers) are TSR's and suck
- up sizeable portions of RAM (60-130K). If you take this RAM hit in
- conventional memory, it's much harder to get real work done. I know that
- I, and I suspect most others using windows cannot accomplish their tasks
- using _only_ windows software. I know I have to use a dos window, and
- many times a day exit windows and do something in dos, and vice versa.
-
- Until budgets are unlimited, and software does exactly everything we want
- it to, some compromises are unavoidable.
-
- just my opinion,
- Richard
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