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by _puk 29 days ago
25 years ago, we were still trying to milk as much as possible out of autoexec.bat and config.sys.. maybe we'd moved on slightly, but we were definitely still trying to get the damn 56k modem to give us the best ping possible.

All this to say.. it was fun because it wasn't easy. We were learning.
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reconnecting 29 days ago
Anytime, buddy!

   DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
   DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-DFFF

   BUFFERS=30
   FILES=40
   FCBS=4,0
   STACKS=9,256
   DOS=HIGH,UMB
   LASTDRIVE=F
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LargoLasskhyfv 29 days ago
Respect. I've been my very own 'memmaker' too :-)

But your's lacks EMS, which at that time was still sometimes necessary for some programs.

As was just HIMEM.SYS for 'pure' Windows 3.xsomething.

So I multimenued that at boot, including options for QEMM and 386totheMax, to cover it all, and compare :-)

EDIT: 4Dos & Scitech Display Doctor(later UNIVBE), too.

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