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[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They were important to boot games that needed most of your limited memory.

[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

640k should be enough for anybody

tell that my mouse driver, the soundblaster driver and the cdrom driver fighting over every single byte of that precious ram 😩

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Bill Gates denied saying this, by the way.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Or to play the demo made by the warez group that cracked it before launching the game.