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[-] Enfors@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

I figured it out - it was memmaker. It automatically edited autoexec.bat (and possibly also config.sys, I'm not sure).

[-] monotremata@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Ah, yeah, I think that may actually have been a paid program. It was something folks were willing to pay not to have to do, because, as I say, it was surprisingly tricky to manage the memory below 640K.

[-] Enfors@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Well, at least in our case, it wasn't something that we bought. I'm pretty sure it came with our MS-DOS.

[-] monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Oh, you're right, it's right there in the link you shared--it was built in to MS-DOS, but only from version 6 on. I must have misremembered it as paid because it was something we didn't have, and then later we did.