Reply to post: Re: Logging which executables are run!

Loathsome eighties ladder-climber levelled by a custom DOS prompt

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Logging which executables are run!

How? It's an MS-DOS PC with 640K RAM, almost certainly no networking and you by-pass any security that might be done in the OS on the HDD by booting a floppy and playing games from that. Few games were multi-disk so copying (not installing!) the game to the HDD had a single benefit. Initial loading time. The whole game would fit in and run in RAM. Depending on the BIOS, there may have been no way to disable the floppy drive. There were ways to secure a PC back then but almost no one could or did because security was simply limiting who had physical access and trust in the user.

And anyway, from experience in a past life, who's to say that wordstar.com isn't Alley Cat, Ford Driving Simulator or Space Invaders in a different directory.

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