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They were important to boot games that needed most of your limited memory.
640k should be enough for anybody
tell that my mouse driver, the soundblaster driver and the cdrom driver fighting over every single byte of that precious ram 😩
Bill Gates denied saying this, by the way.
nobody needs more than a 107mb hard drive either.
Or to play the demo made by the warez group that cracked it before launching the game.