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		ghaff on Dec 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PC DOS Reimagined There was a cottage industry of software to get around DOS' single-tasking limitations. DoubleDOS was another program that let you have multiple sessions. There were terminate and stay resident (TSR) program like Sidekick.

rbanffy on Dec 23, 2020 [–]

I always thought that TSR stood for "trash system randomly".

I'll show myself out.

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