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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems
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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.
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I am so happy not to have to mess with that. LOADHIGH agony.
So do you want EMS or XMS this time? I'm sorry, you had too many TSRs, you can't run X-Wing now...
Damn, should I load the mouse driver or the CD-ROM driver? If I load both, I can't run strike commander!
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.
Surely mostly nostalgia. But I do remember feeling a sense of accomplishment whenever I managed to run a game and get the sound working ๐