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Comment by _puk

2 days ago

It's kind of touched on elsewhere, but when phones became computers.

Suddenly it's an always on resource that needs value extracting.

It's even worse nowadays, post COVID, with the insane hustle culture. I mean, yeah, these strats worked when it was the odd person doing it. But now.. nah thanks, you're trying to play on my basic human nature.

You want fun? Build shit. Stop being precious about vibe coding, it's a spectrum, nothing is too complex now.. learn from the LLM if you don't want to just let it run with the code.

Shit.. it's fun to finally build out a good portion of the never ending ideas list (and to realise half of those ideas just aren't worth the effort)

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_puk  2 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.

  • reconnecting  2 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

    • LargoLasskhyfv  2 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.