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Umm the rest of us has to write our own autoexec.bat, not because we were idiots that deleted stuff or got viruses, but to change the keyboard language and a few other things to have enough memory to play Doom.
Don't forget config.sys! Who all here can get a Soundblaster working without disabling anything else? (IRQ 5 typically?)
And then put that autoexec.bat on a bootable floppy disk you needed to research how to make yourself, fucking around with EMS and XMS settings to have enough memory to play.
Figuring out how to get games to play as a teenager is what launched my career in IT.
Oh man, I was there.... 3.000 yrs ago!
when "do your own research" meant "read a book" because Google didn't exist yet
Then came memmaker.exe and life improved a little.