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[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because they didn’t load absolutely anything.

I guess most people here are too young to remember that even drivers were loaded at a per program basis, e.g. you would need to configure each game you played to use specific video and audio hardware. Nowadays that doesn’t happen.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Pretty much, though my 486 is configured for ‘94/‘95 timeframe so it loads mouse drivers, CD-ROM drivers, Sound Blaster drivers, a Plug’n Play setup, and a couple other things before it shows the prompt, or in this case the menu I scripted.