A Public Service Announcement

[kjn]

DOS is easy to troubleshoot.

This PSA has been brought by you by the letters A, H and E.

Comments

[dlganger.livejournal.com]

Bah, even with all that, it was still easy to troubleshoot. Run a DOS BBS for a couple of years -- that'll teach you memory optimizing tricks that MEMMAKER.EXE never heard of.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

memmaker? People used that? I constructed all my config.sys and autoexec.bat files by hand back in the day. After DOS 5, when you could build in menu options? That was awesome. I had different boot options for Windowd 3.1, various games depending on how they wanted the the extended memory presented, RAMdisk configs (I had 16MB back when 4 was a lot and most people were still running 486SXs with 1). I still have a retail copy of 6.something (whatever the final release was) around here somewhere. VirtualPC doesn't support it and VMware doesn't work on Vista64 yet. Once I can, I'm totally playing Mechwarrior2 again.

[dlganger.livejournal.com]

yes, a lot of people used it, and it quickly become a matter of pride to beat it at its own game.