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A study on tech literacy (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Let me blow your mind.

People are probably running FreeDOS nowadays though which uses a different syntax.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

That knowledge is completely useless now.