Talk:TSR

"Terminate and Stay Resident", not "Ready", though.. -- Tor 08:54, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, you are right! I was just typing from my mind... and it's error prone, between that and me constantly screwing up its/it's :) neozeed 15:17, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Another thing, it's true that they were hard to program, but I seem to recall that (just after Sidekick came out) Borland included a kit or something with their tools which made it easy to create your own TSR tools. But I'm not certain. I still have some Borland manuals hidden away somewhere so I guess I should see if I could find something about it, but I could also be remembering entirely incorrect of course.-- Tor 08:17, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

I recall writing TSR's with turbo pascal to be a big PITA... (Pain in the ass)... The worst part was that Turbo Pascal 5.5 did inline Octal... not quite assembly... Oh the fun of writing asm hooks in debug, unassembling them, and putting the octal into the pascal program... I wish I had the book that had these fantastic examples, I'd have never figured them out... Another thing was to hook the timer, and kind of run as a task in the background... I did this for some modem programs and whatnot.... Good fun in the day. OS/2 killed the need for being so ... sneaky with the OS. neozeed 03:07, 6 July 2010 (UTC)