Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Sep 01 2025 10:23:20

  Re: Re: Hi all!
  By: Gamgee to Digital Man on Sun Aug 31 2025 10:00 pm

 Ga> 2.  Juggling the order (and command line switches) for device drivers in
 Ga> autoexec.bat and config.sys for maximum free memory (via "loadhigh",
 Ga> "devicehigh", EMM, EMS, etc.  (This assumes we're going all the way back
 Ga> to MSDOS days).  ;-)

One of my favorite featues added in MS-DOS 6 was the ability to have multiple boot configurations.  You could modify your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT with different sections which would have different settings & drivers loaded (or not loaded) when you boot up.  This way, if any of your software required a different system configuration in order to run, you could easily reboot and choose the other configuration from a menu that MS-DOS would show you (it also had a default configuration which would automatically be selected, if I recall).

Nightfox
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