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Anyone else miss the IRQ shuffle?
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Bakuun
Posts: 372
Registered: 2001-1-23 16:09:03
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Anyone else miss the IRQ shuffle?
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For those of us that have been using PC's since the early 90's, doing the IRQ shuffle was a dance we all had to do to get our modems, soundcards and voodoo cards (when they came out) working. I kinda miss it, made owning a computer a bit of a challenge! Now it's all boring plug and play. Hmph!
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regulator_cracka
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Registered: 2009-1-6 15:07:53
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NO!
*I miss it like a bad case of the crabs. I miss it like adjusting autoexec.bat and config.sys every 5 minutes!
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silvadel2
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Registered: 2009-7-13 09:37:29
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It was the primary reason I never had a printer on my current PC. It was just so much easier without losing that space.
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Surge_MT
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Registered: 2001-5-9 11:10:00
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Ahh, the good old days, which also included the memory management shuffle to get all your DOS drivers loaded in just the right order without running out of memory (loadhigh/emm386/himem.sys sound familiar?)
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Bakuun
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Registered: 2001-1-23 16:09:03
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Surge_MT posted:
Ahh, the good old days, which also included the memory management shuffle to get all your DOS drivers loaded in just the right order without running out of memory (loadhigh/emm386/himem.sys sound familiar?)
oh GOD!!! himem.sys! 32 kb! No more! No less!
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regulator_cracka
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silvadel2
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Registered: 2009-7-13 09:37:29
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It goes along with having an I: drive so your cluster size wasnt absolutely ridiculous on a largish for the day drive.
A: B: floppies C: drive 1 base partition D: drive 2 base partition drive e: f: g: drive 1 partitions drive h: i: drive 2 partitions..
I ran a 2 line BBS so I had all sorts of fun making everything work 
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Cuttlery
Title: Wanna see what you missed?
Posts: 2,631
Registered: 2001-1-9 19:31:21
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For some odd reason I was reading this as ICQ and thinking "ICQ is still around?"
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Shazami
Posts: 453
Registered: 2002-3-22 16:26:07
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And Cutt - it still is, lol...
Just ain't used that much anymore...
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myxomatosis8
Title: amateur zookeeper
Posts: 800
Registered: 2001-7-14 23:45:21
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Date Posted:
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Started fooling around with PCs around '94 and I never had to play with IRQs, although I did/do know what they are....
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