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While knowing either meaning of the abbreviation is dating oneself, it's weird that people remember the very obscure and short-lived meaning it to refer to a te
by jhbadger 2y ago
While knowing either meaning of the abbreviation is dating oneself, it's weird that people remember the very obscure and short-lived meaning it to refer to a technique to allow fake multitasking on DOS such as in Borland's Sidekick.
- nathan_douglas 2y agoIt was the first bit of jargon I had to learn, to understand why I needed to hold "shift" when booting up my 486 to play _Doom_
- theamk 2y agoMy MS-DOS times were clearly very different from yours. There were nothing obscure about TSR, we've had dozens of them back in MS-DOS era. You'd trade good ones with friends. Screen savers / boss keys, mouse drivers, network drivers, keyboard layout switchers, better fonts, CD-ROM drivers (yep, many of were real TSRs loaded from autoexec.bat, rather than real "drivers" loaded from config.sys). And jokes, don't forget jokes. And of course once you actually tried to run the DOS games, you'd find out they want a _lot_ of memory. You'd move all your drivers to himem, but that would not be enough, so some TSRs have to go. But not all of them of course, maybe your game still needs CD-ROM or mouse driver - which leads to many ways to start up the system and eventually a boot menu in DOS 6.