That's if you don't count the computer that didn't have a hard drive and ONLY booted from 3.5" floppy (which was just enough to get a bootable DOS disk and Prince of Persia).

IRQ's were great for choice. You got to your modem, video card, and soundcard and then picked which two would actually work when they all wanted IRQ5 or 7

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I remember when discs got big enough that we could have windows 3.1 installed as well as a current tech game

I will not miss setting up interrupts for cards, I will not miss setting up extended memory

Though all that would have been easier were I older. I was in my 20s when Linux became available and the early experience with DOS had me happy to dive right into that

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

tweaking himem.sys was a skill in and of itself :-)