Linux Hater's Blog (parody)

[Tero Pesonen]

On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 08:29 +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> Tero Pesonen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 02:56 +0000, Patton Echols wrote:
> >> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:48:25 -0500, Michael Haney wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Christopher Chan
> >>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> >>>>> Another thing is, they're afraid of the Terminal.  These people are
> >>>>> spoiled rotten by Windows!  They don't know what it was really like
> >>>>> during the MS/PC-DOS days.  
> > 
> > Off-topic, perhaps, but in case someone wants to know:
> > Comment out DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.SYS in CONFIF.SYS and DOS becomes a
> > gamer's friend. But leave it there for Windows and SMARTDRV.
> > 
> > And remember to load those mouse and soundcard drivers high! Doom shall
> > reward your efforts. And boot disks are cheap to make. Just remember
> > which one was for which game. And for the commonest needs, create a boot
> > menu reminiscent of GRUB, so the correct AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
> > combo is loaded per mood (SimCity vs. Windows vs. Wolfenstein 3D vs. DOS
> > with loads of free memory).
> 
> Use IBM-PC DOS if MS-DOS does not leave enough conventional memory and 
> you forgot about the cdrom driver and mscdex. Of course, these TSR 
> should be stuffed in himem or umb.

Exactly. Hence also DOS=HIGH,UMB and for Windows remember to LH
SHARE /L:500 /F:5100 to avoid issues with older software.

Tero Pesonen

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