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[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I built a config.sys file with a menu that then passed the menu choice on to autoexec.bat so I could choose at boot time between 3 configurations- one with expanded memory for older games that required it, one with extended memory for everyday use and newer games, and one with everything extra (including CD-ROM drivers) stripped away to maximize free conventional RAM for the one or two games that needed that...

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How could you have a menu in config.sys?? I wasn’t aware that was even possible.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

That’s crazy. It’s like some ghetto DOS version of grub.

[–] t_berium@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I know that was a thing and I tried to get it done, but never managed to get it to work properly. So back to manual configuration and rebooting it was.

But I like to think that's how I learned how my PC works and what it does when doing so, which helped me identify the cause of many issues over the years.