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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Not gonna lie, part of me wants to relive the SoundBlaster and DOS extenders era and watch stuff with QuickTime. Tinkering with config.sys and autoexec.bat was quite fun back then.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Was it really FUN or is it not just nostalgia? I would not reaaaally want to fiddle with the autostart-crap again. It often took soooo long. Even with those auto-optimizers...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I am so happy not to have to mess with that. LOADHIGH agony.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So do you want EMS or XMS this time? I'm sorry, you had too many TSRs, you can't run X-Wing now...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Damn, should I load the mouse driver or the CD-ROM driver? If I load both, I can't run strike commander!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Aye. But then again... The fiddling with windows to make it do what u want and don't what you don't, is not much less time wasted. You can just use a mouse now 😂

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

With dos 5.x I started creating some fancy auroexec menu at boot that switches between several configurations depending if I wanted to run windows, need a lot of xms or a big chunk of Ems (640k was NOT enough for everything).

It was somehow fun.

But at least, if something is not working, it was entirely your fault. Now? It's probably windows update who fucked up something you desperately need right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

That's a good point, yes. At least we knew what fucked up. Today you can't. It's too much and too complex. And nearly nothing is under your direct control anymore. Only android or ios are doing it worse and take all of your controls away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

just nostalgia

Surely mostly nostalgia. But I do remember feeling a sense of accomplishment whenever I managed to run a game and get the sound working 😅