Dos Executables Explained Byte Size Nostalgia Nerd

Summary

COM .BAT. EXE... these are a few of my favourite things. Ahhhh MS- Today we're taking a high level look at Virtual Drivers and Dynamic Link Libraries; commonplace on operating systems since the ... Strange as it may seem, Lotus 1-2-3 was actually partly responsible for a big How do viruses work? Computer Viruses. The scourge of the digital world. We've got Trojans, Worms, Macros, Malware, Spyware; ... Expansion Buses that is. PC Expansion buses go back a long way, before they were even called a "BUS", when they were still ... CTRL ALT DELETE. Now there's a key combination we're almost all familiar with. CTRL-ALT-DEL (or the three finger salute as it's ... Think of this video as almost a Pentium vs. 486 reference.The Pentium processor seemed a huge leap in performance over it's ... Plug & Play (PnP) was a standard introduced in the early 90s to help allocate computer resources more effectively. The past had ... Computer memory has come a long way, and the IBM PC Compatible has been at the forefront of memory technology since it's ... It's the age old question. Why, oh why, is there a twist in the floppy disk drive ribbon cable? Ever since I opened up my first PC I've ... How does a hard drive work? Well, we haven't got time to go into that today, but let's talk Disk Geometry. It's a fascinating subject. PCs in the late 90s would most likely have been blessed with the terms MMX Processors. Pentium MMX, Pentium II MMX. Loading Screens, and loading bars; it's a question which plagued my mind for many years. Why, when loading games from audio ...