08-31-2003, 06:29 AM
MIT's a good school, but it's really expensive, and the application was about 15 pages long, and required multiple essays and letters of recommendation.
So I said screw it, and ended up going to Michigan Tech. It's a pretty good school, and I got a scholarship, so it's all good.
TSR is short for "terminate and stay resident". It's a program that loads itself into memory, hooks an interrupt, and then returns control to DOS so that other programs can run. When the hooked interrupt is called, control passes to the TSR, which does whatever it was designed to do. The TSR then returns control to the calling program. By hooking the timer interrupt, you can create a program that appears to "run in the background".
So I said screw it, and ended up going to Michigan Tech. It's a pretty good school, and I got a scholarship, so it's all good.
TSR is short for "terminate and stay resident". It's a program that loads itself into memory, hooks an interrupt, and then returns control to DOS so that other programs can run. When the hooked interrupt is called, control passes to the TSR, which does whatever it was designed to do. The TSR then returns control to the calling program. By hooking the timer interrupt, you can create a program that appears to "run in the background".