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by teh_klev 1732 days ago
> Kids today don't believe me when I say I ran my ppp dialer from DOS, and had a working IP stack

KA9Q was what I used back in the day with Demon Internet.

> TSR shenanigans

One of the first things I learned to write with Zorland C and a bit of assembler on DOS 3.2 were TSR's. They were a lot of fun.

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Ahem! Borland or Zortech? ;->
Genuinely "Zorland" with a Z which preceded Zortech. It was one of Walter Bright's early compilers. We're talking 1985'ish here :)
He! Time flies. I wonder if he named it intentionally like that.