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I Assumed 'Twas The Boot Code (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Turbo bumped my 8MHz 386 to sixteen megahertz

It never got switched off, except in some games that a slower CPU made easier (some games back then ran just as fast as the hardware could run them, expecting the computers or turn to be the state of the art) By the time of the machine in the picture unturbo wasn't enough so we used a TSR* program called goSlow to get specific performance

*Terminate, Stay Resident; a program that could run in the background

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Run in the background? Look at you with your fancy multitasking OS

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was the wondrous system "DOS 6.2"

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't that require Extended memory? I don't think that's going to catch on

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

It did, extended memory came about the same time we needed to show down the system