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Comment: Android apps look like TSR's to me. The TSRs even persist when the machine is reset/rebooted. Many of these apps use costly internet data even after a user believes they have exited the program. After running then exiting an app, usually a user must also 'force close' the app to actually
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The article ignores the original INT 27H call which preceded INT 21H/31H, and as far as I know has always been existed in MS-DOS (and not just from version 2, as stated in the article). Please add this detail, since I can't do it myself with my English. Thanks in advance,
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I don't know what has done Borland Sidekick to merrit such a proeminent feature in the articole. I don't even know what the heck it's used for, and I've used computers since early DOS days. Borland products are at best niche.
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However, the most used TSR's were the mouse driver, the sound card driver and the CD-ROM driver. While the CD-ROM driver has 1 (one) mention, the mouse driver and sound card driver have nil.
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In the Brief History section very little can be found that has anything to do with any sort of history, and so I would suggest it should be renamed to Background or something.
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to show what's running. Some of them seem to interfere with orderly shut down and are a general pain in the neck. Aren't they -- like viruses -- a parasitic drain on the PC?
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TSRs were basically a poor-man's multitasking. You can consider any Windows process a "TSR", since it has multi-tasking out of box.
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also, the 1st paragraph of the use could be a little clearer to the non specialist but overall, not bad, not bad at all !!
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I vaguely remember playing with TSRs in CP/M, but too little remains in my head to contribute meaningfully.
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on Knowledge. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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stop it from running. Looking into android TSR virus issues is what led me to this page.
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in the introduction: "system call" is jargon and should not be in the introduction IMO
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I moved this from the article until someone makes clear what it's talking about:
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That's not true at all. In fact, it's likely that TSR use in
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was adapted to DOS with very little change (sadly, the
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