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And I'll bet these young whippersnappers have never had to low-level format their hard drive.
DEBUG: G=C800:5
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Okay, I maybe used the DOS debugger once in my life, and certainly not for a low-level format. *bows to master*
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Editing autoexec.bat/config.sys is one thing, but I had completely forgotten about that one. Nice!
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MFM Drive?
Use a RLL-Controller, DEBUG G=C800:6 an gain about 40% space on the same harddisk.
OK, the defect map does not match anymore, but no risk, no fun
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I never knew that. I would have made some customers very happy back in the 80's if I had known.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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... or creating several boot configurations, tailored for DOOM, file transfer over COM ports, development work...
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I did my own boot menu to select the configuration I wanted and then it booted the PC with my changes.
All in a nice .BAT file!
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that's pro. i only managed to play tie fighter after using memmaker
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Rage wrote: or resolve that IRQ confilct
Be sure and move that jumper to match the file!
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Indeed - I can remember the look of my father when I bought a second hard drive and installed it as the main, and had to move a jumper on the former main to make it as slave drive. I think he was a bit nervous, the thingies were quite expensive back then, and there was no tutorial youtube videos to back me up that I was not doing voodoo. (only a BBS text file with instructions, but that would have taken too long an explanation).
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Those were the days...then I got a cold shower when I tried to revive an SGI O2...PROMs. Firmwares, bootloaders...
Then I achieved Nirvana when I realized the games I compiled for the Nintendo DSi were compiled with the OS in them (Or rather the game was the operating system)
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Really ? I did not know this about the Nintendo OS. "The game was the operating system" : this opens up so many possbilities *stars in the eyes*
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I recall a Dave Barry article on the lack of Mac games and his two favorite PC games: "autoexec.bat" and "config.sys".
"Macs are wuss-o-rama computers you just plug in and use."
Wish I could find that old article.
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How many people remember the days of repeatedly testing and tweaking your compiles to get everything to run in 320k of RAM or less?
Loading page files into extended RAM was allowed, but we wouldn't send anything out the door that took more than 320k to load.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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That is why the compiler/linker supported “overlays”.
Predecessor to DLL swapping to let the core of your program sit in 200KB and swap in other chunks to the left over 120 KB. Thank you linker!
Of course your fixed/static/data segment memory could still not exceed 64 KB, ever!
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I've been using Edge because theoretically the memory footprint is smaller than Chrome, but whatever...and of course the default search engine is Bing.
> 50% of the time I get garbage results.
I just now asked "what is an address half code" as I see it in some public voter data I'm working with. Bing gives me shyte answers. Open up Google and I get reasonable explanations in the first couple of links returned by the search engine.
When Microsoft says: Quote: Keeping Bing as your default search engine provides an enhanced search experience in the new Microsoft Edge they lie! They LIE!
Just changed the default search engine in Edge. Bye-bye Bing!
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Meh. I installed Edge when it RTMed and never bothered changing the default search engine. I still find what I'm after without going to Google 95+% of the time.
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Same!
But.. they are after Marc!
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You talking about Bings that go thump in the night?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I've used Bing once.
Got a new tablet with Bing as default search engine.
I was playing Final Fantasy VI and needed some help with a boss or something.
I searched for "ffvi [boss name]" and I got no relevant pages
FFVI is one of the most popular games ever AND IT FOUND NOTHING RELEVANT!
Google gave me tons of relevant pages.
Needless to say I've never used Bing since.
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And when was that?
A tablet with Bing as the default search engine? A few years at least.
Give it another go. It's not as bad as people seem to remember it.
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dandy72 wrote: And when was that? Come to think of it, that was 2014 already
dandy72 wrote: It's not as bad as people seem to remember it. This thread proves you wrong
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Sander Rossel wrote: This thread proves you wrong
They're all just naysayers who last tried Bing in 2014 like you have.
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Remember, Bing Is Not Google.
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Can I tag on this question only because we are talking about search engines.
I switched to Firefox with DuckDuckGo about a month ago. Seemed OK the duck yields less precise results when searching for Net.VB code questions.
The REAL BIG irritation I am seeing is Japanese characters in the Search Text Box.
I have Firefox set to clear history whrn I close the application.
I do not use book marks I wrote a small Net.VB application to open favorite websites.
I have tried to clear cache and site data but it still happens at times.
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