Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Sep 01 2025 03:14 pm

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: Hi all!
 Ni>   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).  ;-)

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

Oh yes, I remember this feature/function very well, and used it 
extensively.  Great stuff!



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