[khedoros]

> I hear this a lot in retrospectives but was this really that challenging?

I guess what I remember around that age was using various games' bootdisk utilities to generate disks, then looking at the contents, blindly fooling around with different combinations of settings to get my games working by trial and error. Navigation was pretty easy, but getting memory-constrained things working without some key concepts (x86 real mode memory, stack sizes, file handles, etc) was a challenge.

I think the "help" command was added in MS-DOS 5.0, and I know that I at least started using DOS before then.