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A study on tech literacy(lemmy.world)

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MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
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If you’ve had to mess around with EMM386 and HIMEM settings to play Wing Commander 2, you win.

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Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works
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Autoexec.bat’s and boot disks for everything ftw.

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

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barsoap@lemm.ee
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Let me blow your mind.

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

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MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
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Yup eventually did this with DOS 6. Suffered from DOS 1 until then.

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Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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That knowledge is completely useless now.

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briever@lemm.ee
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Ahhh happy days and nights.

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