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  • KellyCriterion1 hour ago
    AUTOEXEC.BAT &amp; HIMEM.SYS rulers - rise your hand if you liked it: XMS, EMS and all that - what a great time before we had unified mem, right? :-D<p>LOL
    • TMWNN1 hour ago
      From Wikipedia &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;PC_game" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;PC_game</a>&gt;:<p>&gt;By 1993, PC games required much more memory than other software, often consuming all of conventional memory, while device drivers could go into upper memory with DOS memory managers. Players found modifying `CONFIG.SYS` and `AUTOEXEC.BAT` files for memory management cumbersome and confusing, and each game needed a different configuration. (The game <i>Les Manley in: Lost in L.A.</i> satirizes this by depicting two beautiful women exhaust the hero in bed, by requesting that he again explain the difference between extended and expanded memory.)
      • KellyCriterion41 minutes ago
        If you want a fight, take this!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HIMEM.SYS" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;HIMEM.SYS</a><p>:-D<p>LOL<p>Good ol days....
  • burnt-resistor1 hour ago
    Later, V-Com Memory Commander allowed 902 KiB of free conventional memory instead of something like 623 using a number of tricks.