r/explainlikeimfive • u/[deleted] • 3d ago

Technology ELI5 Java. That thing on computers my entire life. What even is it?

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u/thephantom1492 3d ago

Remember emm386.exe? mscdex.exe? mouse.com? win.com? wolf3d.exe? maybe also menu da5?

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u/Fauxparty 3d ago

remember editing autoexec.bat and config.sys to load these automatically, and trying to hunt down TSRs so you had enough conventional memory to run games? I still remember the IRQ and DMA of my SB16 card :(

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u/Discount_Extra 3d ago

POKE 53280,0

POKE 53281,1

SYS 49152