Back in the day when win95 came out, everyone was trying the whole 'dual-boot' idea. And when the bootloader got corrupted, which inevitably happened, people dropped the whole idea. VMs brought back the whole concept in a different way. Personally, I always used the separate HD method as it way …

I'm new here, but I ooohhh so remember the days of manually tweaking all my autoexecs and configs for conventional memory. The best thing I found was to use a program that I don't remember anymore to actually 'look' at all my memory 1mb and below. You could see which regions had a bios in it, which …

It's been many years since I've done this, actually maybe a couple of decades, but I think I remember how I used to do this. So the DOS install disks each have a identifier file that lets the installer know which disk it is. I would copy all the files from each disk into its own directory, ie, disk1 …