MS-DOS 5 promo video

[nirvana]

Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
But they promised 45k more free memory what else can a guy want?

That's outrageous!  Who would ever need that much memory!?

[Wolfala]

Know what I miss? HIMEM, and knowing if a program needs LOEMS or HIEMS. Remember what a super-bi*ch it was trying to get Falcon 3 to run on 8 megs of ram, with 4 megs of EMS in the background?

I remember spending hours tweaking the config.sys and the autoexec.bat sequencing, with rearranging the load sequences so we'd have just enough memory left over to load the sound drivers.

Ah, memories.

[LePaul]

Originally posted by Boroda
Oh, QEMM! Much better memory management then even DR-DOS built-in system.

IIRC Quarterdeck also made Desqview, a multitasking environment for DOS, people ran BBS software in background with it.

I did that for my BBS software (Wildcat)

[straffo]

Originally posted by AKIron
I missed out on using MS-DOS 1 but got in on the fun with version 2 and every other after. Version 4 was the biggest pos of the bunch and 5 was probably the most eagerly anticipated with the built-in improved memory features.

A side note: Who remembers using Quarterdeck's QEMM?

I do

[Ghosth]

Dos 4 - 6 mostly running an XTree Gold shell.

Was amazing what you could do, sky was the limit, err except multitasking.

[Charon]

Know what I miss? HIMEM, and knowing if a program needs LOEMS or HIEMS. Remember what a super-bi*ch it was trying to get Falcon 3 to run on 8 megs of ram, with 4 megs of EMS in the background?

I remember spending hours tweaking the config.sys and the autoexec.bat sequencing, with rearranging the load sequences so we'd have just enough memory left over to load the sound drivers.

I did the same thing with Aces of the Pacific. I was up until about 3:00 am trying to free up a whole 5k of low mem so I could run the game without a boot disk but still with all my hardware enabled.

Later I used 386 Max, and it was OK but I had problems and shifted to QEMM which was superior IMO.

My first GUI (so to speak) was in DOS 3 using a home made text file/autoexec.bat menu Hit A for Falcon (which launched "a.bat") I was so 31337

Those were the days. Back when I could understand how an OS actually worked and manipulate it without a CS degree. Flashing a bios about does it for me these days.

Charon

[Shaky]

Geeez....I remember all of this...and external cassette tape drives, external 5-1/4"  floppies, EGA, XGA, 150 MEGA-byte hard drives,.......


I feel old.....

[klingan]

Originally posted by C(Sea)Bass
whats a DOS?

Death of Seabass??