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A study on tech literacy (lemmy.world)
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[–] Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours 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 16 hours 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 13 hours ago

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

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 0 points 17 hours ago

That knowledge is completely useless now.