5 Things We Miss About Old-School Computing - PC World- registry cleaner

Going strictly by the numbers, we’re living in a computing paradise compared with 20 or 30 years ago, when the personal-computer revolution was just beginning. The phenomenally popular Apple II and Commodore 64 computers had 48KB and 64KB of system memory, respectively, and the IBM PC’s basic configuration had a measly 16KB. For personal computing’s first decade, none but the seriously hard-core had to push their system beyond the seemingly limitless 640KB. Sure, some of the parameters seemed arcane, but dealing with them was better than deciphering the enigmatic HKEY_local_machine parameters infesting Windows machines over the last 12 years. INI files were also easy to back up, restore, or swap, and messing one up wouldn’t take down your entire system. More Info

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