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Eddy talked about DOS in the thread below, so let me throw some obligatory nostalgia at you. 
And for youngsters, you'll never know that satisfaction feeling of successfully extending RAM usage for Doom to play (by modifying autoexec.bat) or resolve that IRQ confilct while tuning your brand new Soundblaster 16 
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And for increasing file handles for Foxpro and Clipper programmes
In Config.sys or latterly Config.nt
FILES=100
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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EMM386 or HIMEM? Which Mouse.com do I use?
If I load the mouse first, then the soundblaster, I can save 512 bytes ...
It took longer to get some games running with mouse and sound than the game took to play! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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My first LAN party : 4h30 to see the seven of us on the network, then 30 min play before having to go back home 
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And you could brick your computer by a single mistake in autoexec.bat.
And learned a hard lessons with delete t*.jpg /s -y mistyped as delete *.jpg /s -y  Who needs pictures anyway ? 
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And "general failure reading drive A:" thrown in for good measure.
But when they were all working, LAN Doom was FUN!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yes, actually we had later even more fun in capture the flag in Quake, because of the team vs. team. Or maybe was it an extension of Quake 2 ?
My computer was too slow, could not afford better back then, so I always was the flag guardian camping near it with a big machine gun.
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Doom and Quake did get expensive - Herself insisted on identical computers so I didn't have an advantage over her. So every upgrade cost me double ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Doom ? Update ? What do you mean ?
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New sound card, new RAM, new graphics, new mice, new motherboard, new PSU, new HDD, new CD ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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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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