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A study on tech literacy (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If you've had to mess around with EMM386 and HIMEM settings to play Wing Commander 2, you win.

[–] Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Autoexec.bat's and boot disks for everything ftw.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I learnt how to use a custom autoexec.bat that had a menu to select the different memory configs. That was a godsend!

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let me blow your mind.

People are probably running FreeDOS nowadays though which uses a different syntax.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yup eventually did this with DOS 6. Suffered from DOS 1 until then.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago

That knowledge is completely useless now.

[–] briever@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Ahhh happy days and nights.