Serious Situation

I just know my dad was pissed when I played with his 5.25 floppys with...magnets...

I saw drivparm on an apple in highschool, hense my comment about it. When I saw your response after mine I goggled it and it appears that it was on an apple to allow use of an IBM floppy drive, which I guess i didnt realize at the time.  I do remember the pascal teacher being excited she had 2MB on her Apple. I thoought she was an idiot because i had that on my commodore for a year+ when she got that on her crapple 2.  I was a commadork so you will have to forgive me for not realizing that one piece of inferior hardware was running another... 
I have to admit if you were typing that in dos you have me beat...  I came to Dos in 3.0 (or 3.2, that rings a bell too) and was mad because my 72MB ESDI hard drive had to be partitioned in to multiple drives until 3.3 came out. 

How many folks out there had a 287 co-processor?


Edited by jberner - 25 Nov 2008 at 9:45pm

Originally posted by LightChristmas OK. Lets see how much of an "old fart" you are. What was this used for?    debug -g=c800:1 and drivparm /D:x /F:7 /I

Sucks to be an apple user. I hope you grew out of that habit somewhere along the lines...

OPEN15,8,15,”N0:”DISKNAME,ID”:CLOSE 15

was the true mans (or kids) way to format a disk.

Originally posted by LightChristmas And of course - Desqview and QEMM86

Deskview was an early gui if i remember right and qemm was a memory manager that was better than emm368.exe.  Heck I thought I ruled the world when I ran a commodore 128 BBS with 2.2Mb storage online including early multiplayer games.

Himem.sys, the first useful dos memory manager put small TSR code and other drivers like mouse.sys in to the space between the 640K and 1mb barrier.  Emm386 and later qemm allowed you to put those and other types of programs in to memory beyond the 1mb limit which enabled the use of memory hog software like NIC, CD-ROM and sound card drivers in DOS which ultimately allowed us to have "great" games full of crappy grainy video for years to come. Man, what I wouldn't do for a 5K NIC driver again.

I believe Expanded was the space between 640 and 1mb and extended was the space after 1mb if memory serves my correctly

Sorry, the geek in me is coming out...

(edited for spelling- I didnt fact check so I hope I got those right)


Edited by jberner - 25 Nov 2008 at 8:13pm

Lets see....

HIMEM.SYS started moving stuff out of the first 640k?, but you could get (and I had) a ... um... some sort of ghost that only used 1k and moved other drives like mouse, and Trident video drivers out of low mem, so that the hi-powered games that needed all 640k could run.