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Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 week agoFor me I loved the challenge of squeezing out a few extra k of lower memory. My autoexec.bat had four hundred lines in it.
I miss those days honestly. There’s really not much practical benefit to overclocking anymore, even broke college kid level devices come with at least 8 gigs of ram.
8… gigs… of ram… and ALL of it treated like lower memory… Could you imagine that in the mid 90s? I’d be thinking star trek.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I learned so much in those days about the outrageously absurd, efficiency of code and concatenation and stupid little things. Early days of cutting and even scraping through these silly coding difficulties shaped us in ways we can’t even recognize now.