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Going from game port to USB with "plug and play" was a huge deal man. Not having to manually assign IRQ to get your audio working too lol. That said, there is still one thing that was cursed in the old days and remains cursed now: printers. Fuck printers.
I remember studying for my first A+ cert. So much of it was dealing with IRQ assignments and conflicts.
For me, it was about learning the anatomy of the laser printer. I do remember a lot about IRQ and memory addressing, but I don't remember it being that much of the test.