Kids these days don't know the pain of trying to get enough free conventional memory to run something.

If I was pressed, I could probably still write a config.sys to reallocate enough system memory to play Test Drive

Now I'm glad I was at the tail end of DOS. My dad showed me how to interrupt the windows boot to get into DOS for Lemmings and Doom, but for everything else like Anno 1602, Need for Speed 2 and Age of Empires 1, I used Windows 95.

DOS was a step backwards for me from Atari TOS.

in a care home presumably

I absolutely still remember my grandfather having a dual 5.25” IBM and teaching my 6-7 yo self how to use the cli. I still remember that MSDOS 2.0 box he had up on his shelf, and how he taught me to keep a simple text file of the prices of my baseball cards, according to the legendary Beckett price guide.

I then later vaguely messing around with 3.11 followed by 95+, but the basis of my mediocre understanding of the cli was due to my grandfather teaching me on DOS 2.0.

DOS5 here, installed from 5.25" floppies on a tiny HDD and looking at one of those awful shades-of-yellow monitors.

That's if you don't count the computer that didn't have a hard drive and ONLY booted from 3.5" floppy (which was just enough to get a bootable DOS disk and Prince of Persia).

IRQ's were great for choice. You got to your modem, video card, and soundcard and then picked which two would actually work when they all wanted IRQ5 or 7

“What is that high memory area stuff they added in DOS4?”

gets swallowed by rabbit hole for days

“Oh, that!”

I had 3.1, 95, 98se, XP(teenager).

I got in at I'd say the best time. XP for the Internet as a teenager was absolutely the best time to be a teenager with computers.

Does anyone still know the C> prompt?

The only thing I remember from that era is inserting floppy dics to play games