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Don't forget the hassles of getting two different CD drivers to coexist, so you could have a reader and a burner in the same PC.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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On a PDP/11 running RSTS/E we had PIP
PIP had an ability to Delete files, and entire accounts.
On a DEV system, with a Physical Terminal SWITCH, someone switched my terminal to production, then cleared the screen.
Did not put it back on DEV.
I had gotten up, confirmed what I was supposed to delete...
And I ended up deleting PRODUCTION FILES. A LOT of production files.
We later added system BRANDING, etc.
But after it happened to 2 other people. I actually went into the PRODUCTION systems, and PATCHED the operating system so the command syntax was DIFFERENT, and the normal DELETE parameter was replaced with the word ZAP
It never happened again... LOL
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Worse -- the mechanical engineer to meant to format the floppy disk, but typed "format c:\" instead.
Bye, bye CAD system!
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I actually wrote a program that fixed Himem.sys memory leaks. I ran it between each program that loaded itself into the upper memory block. I also reported this bug to Microsoft. The bug was that in the himem area the program arenas, which were 16 byte structures, wouldn't get merged into a larger block of free memory if they were adjacent to each other and had been freed by their respective programs.
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Thank you for making me feel old.
I once saved a NT4 server, booting from a W95 disk, commanding "FDISK /MSB". It fakkin worked.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: It fakkin worked.
That's one these "I just something incredibly cool but am the only one who can understand it" moments
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And I'll bet these young whippersnappers have never had to low-level format their hard drive.
DEBUG: G=C800:5
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Okay, I maybe used the DOS debugger once in my life, and certainly not for a low-level format. *bows to master*
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Editing autoexec.bat/config.sys is one thing, but I had completely forgotten about that one. Nice!
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MFM Drive?
Use a RLL-Controller, DEBUG G=C800:6 an gain about 40% space on the same harddisk.
OK, the defect map does not match anymore, but no risk, no fun
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I never knew that. I would have made some customers very happy back in the 80's if I had known.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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... or creating several boot configurations, tailored for DOOM, file transfer over COM ports, development work...
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I did my own boot menu to select the configuration I wanted and then it booted the PC with my changes.
All in a nice .BAT file!
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that's pro. i only managed to play tie fighter after using memmaker
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Rage wrote: or resolve that IRQ confilct
Be sure and move that jumper to match the file!
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Indeed - I can remember the look of my father when I bought a second hard drive and installed it as the main, and had to move a jumper on the former main to make it as slave drive. I think he was a bit nervous, the thingies were quite expensive back then, and there was no tutorial youtube videos to back me up that I was not doing voodoo. (only a BBS text file with instructions, but that would have taken too long an explanation).
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Those were the days...then I got a cold shower when I tried to revive an SGI O2...PROMs. Firmwares, bootloaders...
Then I achieved Nirvana when I realized the games I compiled for the Nintendo DSi were compiled with the OS in them (Or rather the game was the operating system)
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Really ? I did not know this about the Nintendo OS. "The game was the operating system" : this opens up so many possbilities *stars in the eyes*
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I recall a Dave Barry article on the lack of Mac games and his two favorite PC games: "autoexec.bat" and "config.sys".
"Macs are wuss-o-rama computers you just plug in and use."
Wish I could find that old article.
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How many people remember the days of repeatedly testing and tweaking your compiles to get everything to run in 320k of RAM or less?
Loading page files into extended RAM was allowed, but we wouldn't send anything out the door that took more than 320k to load.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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That is why the compiler/linker supported “overlays”.
Predecessor to DLL swapping to let the core of your program sit in 200KB and swap in other chunks to the left over 120 KB. Thank you linker!
Of course your fixed/static/data segment memory could still not exceed 64 KB, ever!
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I've been using Edge because theoretically the memory footprint is smaller than Chrome, but whatever...and of course the default search engine is Bing.
> 50% of the time I get garbage results.
I just now asked "what is an address half code" as I see it in some public voter data I'm working with. Bing gives me shyte answers. Open up Google and I get reasonable explanations in the first couple of links returned by the search engine.
When Microsoft says: Quote: Keeping Bing as your default search engine provides an enhanced search experience in the new Microsoft Edge they lie! They LIE!
Just changed the default search engine in Edge. Bye-bye Bing!
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Meh. I installed Edge when it RTMed and never bothered changing the default search engine. I still find what I'm after without going to Google 95+% of the time.
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Same!
But.. they are after Marc!
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