root42Oh, there is a new version of MS DOS out: Version 6.0! Let us upgrade from version 5.0!
And MS DOS 6 comes with memmaker, to free up that conventional memory! It worked pretty well, I would say!
And I have access to my Linux Mint iMac, and can move files back and forth. This makes it so much easier than juggling floppies...
Forgot this bit of Upgrade pr0n: Setup for a German Windows for Workgroups 3.11 install. The reason was originally just to get a more up to date version of EMM386, but led to the whole TCP/IP rabbit hole. Interesting enough WfW3.11 didn't ship with TCP/IP, it was a separate download.
Rob Fahrni@root42 Hey! I worked on that release! 😁
@root42 Nothing too exciting. I was on the Windows International team and we did all the localization testing for Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
One of our Test Engineers reported a bug in the easter egg dialog because it didn’t work properly in German and the developers just about murdered him because Easter Eggs aren’t supposed to exist.
There were a bunch of functions called bear1 through bear[X] that were written in assembly language and when someone touched them, they typically broke.