A terminate-and-stay-resident program (commonly TSR) is a computer program running under DOS that uses a system call to return control to DOS as though...
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DOS (redirect from Back and Forth (software))
operating system, it does provide a terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) function which allows programs to remain resident in memory. These programs can hook...
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employee's duration with an employer Terminate with extreme prejudice, a euphemism for assassination terminate-and-stay-resident program, utility programs used...
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is a DOS terminate-and-stay-resident command, introduced in MS-DOS version 3.3, that provides accelerated access to frequently-used files and directories...
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MS-DOS, daemon-like functionality was implemented as a terminate-and-stay-resident program (TSR). In Windows, a Windows service provides the functionality...
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polymorphic viruses and the virus definitions were updated to scan for a total of 2,371 viruses. VSafe is a terminate and stay resident component of MSAV...
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focused attack scenarios, whose roots can be traced back to the terminate-and-stay-resident viral programs that, once they were launched, would reside in...
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stack, where the remainder is typically implemented either by terminate-and-stay-resident drivers or as a library linked into an application program. It...
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outer edge of the disk platter. Track0 is also the name of a terminate-and-stay-resident MS-DOS program that allows users to revive floppy disks with...
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TSR (section Science and technology)
up TSR in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. TSR may refer to: Terminate-and-stay-resident program, a type of MS-DOS computer program Thermochemical sulfate...
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as well. Extensions generally filled the same role as DOS's terminate and stay resident programs, or Unix's daemons, although by patching the underlying...
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Turbo Pascal (section Debugging and profiling)
programs, the compiler could generate terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs, small utilities that stayed in memory and let the computer do other tasks—running...
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memory was often a scarce resource, and when it was exhausted by applications such as those with terminate-and-stay-resident functionality, no further applications...
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often bypassing the OS entirely, and typically made use of many hotkey combinations. The use of terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs further complicated...
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Background process Daemon (computing) DOS Protected Mode Services Terminate-and-stay-resident program Device driver Operating system service management Service...
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required the use of a terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) utility. Norton Commander did not have native support for LFNs in real mode and would truncate them...
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generated by a word processor and inserted the proper page break tags. When used in conjunction with a terminate-and-stay-resident program such as SmartKey...
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Stanley Reifel, and Norton Guides, a terminate-and-stay-resident program which showed reference information for assembly language and other IBM PC internals...
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The SemWare Editor (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Windows and Linux. Starting in November 1985 as a shareware program called Qedit, it was later modified to run as a terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) program...
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to allow slightly modified DOS resident system extensions (RSX) such as device drivers or terminate-and-stay-resident programs (TSRs) (as so called DPMS...
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compatibility with existing MS-DOS programs) The program runs as a terminate-and-stay-resident program and is typically loaded at boot-up. share [/F:space] [/L:locks]...
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and terminate-and-stay-resident programs (TSRs), could at least be loaded into the upper memory area (UMA), but not into the HMA. Under DOS 5.0 and higher...
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Another name for this encoding is KEYBCS2, the name of the terminate-and-stay-resident utility which implemented the matching keyboard driver. It was...
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debugger (ICD) to be used. GM-NAA I/O Input/Output Control System Terminate-and-stay-resident program Introduction to Operating Systems 000.18/018, Johns Hopkins...
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made terminate-and-stay-resident pop-up utilities such as Borland Sidekick redundant. Windows provided its own version of these utilities, and placing...
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child processes an improved Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) API, environment variables, device driver support, FOR and GOTO loops in batch files, ANSI...
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functions for single-tasking operating systems like MS-DOS using terminate-and-stay-resident techniques. Introduced in 1984 as part of the operating system...
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included as a terminate-and-stay-resident program with MS-DOS and PC DOS versions 5 and later, then Windows 9x, and finally Windows 2000 and later. In early...
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1984 under Philippe Kahn's leadership. It was an early and popular terminate-and-stay-resident program (TSR) for MS-DOS which enabled computer users to...
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x86 Assembly Language, C, BASIC, and Forth languages and made available to DOS users via a terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) program that integrated with...
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