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What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by Crafted_104@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the precious main memory.... Let's see if we can't get this mouse driver to load in upper memory to save me some precious main memory...

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Yep, and then DOS 5 coming in like space program technology, that could put the whole OS in high memory and give you 640 kb all for the user programs. And it had a DISK CACHE (which for the most part didn't work).

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