[EvanAnderson]

> My IRQ conflict resolution skills or knowledge about himem.sys aren't really useful these days.

Your ability to meticulously solve a problem using a systematic troubleshooting approach is always useful. You just happened to hone the skill w/ IRQ conflicts and himem.sys.

[tharkun__]

Agreed. And while what we did to get into the details and discover are different some kids still do.

Heck I did the same. Dip switches galore. Did I know what an IRQ actually is on the OS level while solving IRQ conflicts as a kid? Heck no! Only years later when I no longer needed to did I understand what those actually are/were.

The today equivalent of learning about autoexec.bat and config.sys to not load the cdrom driver because else this one game wouldn't start because it did not have enough memory is figuring out what's behind the Steam "Start" button and where the games "live" and how you can get what you want instead of doing everything through steam.

The kids that are the today equivalent of us in the old days do exist.