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I learned to program on that setup at home in 4th grade. Games wouldn’t run right, so I got the big dos manual and read the entire thing and started messing wi
by treeman79 5y ago
I learned to program on that setup at home in 4th grade.
Games wouldn’t run right, so I got the big dos manual and read the entire thing and started messing with boot setting to free more memory
- ansible 5y agoEven if you didn't run many (or any TSRs like Sidekick), there was a bit of fiddling to maximize the amount of the first 640K bytes available. IIRC, you could load the commonly used Microsoft stuff in the upper memory 384K. This seems to be close to what I used to do: https://www.computerhope.com/ac.htm https://www.computerhope.com/ac.htm
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- plafl 5y agoI could have written your comment. I sometimes think that it's not that children learn faster, it's just that they are used to be totally lost and keep trying