Hacker News Reader

I learned to program on that setup at home in 4th grade.

Games wouldn’t run right, so I got the big dos manual and read the entire thing and started messing with boot setting to free more memory

View on HN

I could have written your comment. I sometimes think that it's not that children learn faster, it's just that they are used to be totally lost and keep trying

Even if you didn't run many (or any TSRs like Sidekick), there was a bit of fiddling to maximize the amount of the first 640K bytes available. IIRC, you could load the commonly used Microsoft stuff in the upper memory 384K.

This seems to be close to what I used to do:

https://www.computerhope.com/ac.htm

Reply on news.ycombinator.com