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> the machine would crash and you would have to reboot I self taught myself on macs. And not knowing how to correctly validate my inputs, I would crash, reboot
by david422 6y ago
> the machine would crash and you would have to reboot
I self taught myself on macs. And not knowing how to correctly validate my inputs, I would crash, reboot, try again until I got it right. So many reboots.
- bombcar 6y agoI remember optimizing my MS-DOS 5.0 config.sys and autoexec.bat to get me back and running as fast as I could, shaved boot down to a few seconds if I remember correctly. Crashing and rebooting wasn't that bad before multi-process became the norm, as the crashing app was taking your data down with it anyway, who cares if you needed to wait 5 seconds for the computer to boot again.
- cout 6y agoI did the same. My 25MHz 386SX boots to a usable screen faster than any Windows or Linux machine I own, despite promises from certain prominent programmers. I could park my hard drive and shut my computer down every night and think twice about it. Now I don't bother, because my coffee will be done before the computer will let my login.