🔧 DOS Development in the Early Days: What It Was Actually Like to Ship Software on 640KB

TL;DR: The thing that surprises most developers when they first dig into DOS 3. x/4.


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Before Stack Overflow: Shipping Code When the Machine Was the Debugger
The Hardware Constraints That Shaped Every Decision
The Actual Toolchain People Used
Setting Up a DOS Dev Environment Today...