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What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the precious main memory.... Let's see if we can't get this mouse driver to load in upper memory to save me some precious main memory...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yep, and then DOS 5 coming in like space program technology, that could put the whole OS in high memory and give you 640 kb all for the user programs. And it had a DISK CACHE (which for the most part didn't work).

Godlike I tell you

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