MSDOS 6.22

In the process of digging through my pile of ancient hard drives looking for one to use with FreeDOS, I found one that booted up MSDOS 6.22 for me. These are some notes on a few things I found on that disk.

CONFIG.SYS

Contrary to your likely expectations, this is a text file that tells MSDOS how to load drivers and set various things up. I used to have some level of understanding about all these settings. Here is what I found: 
DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE M9 D=256 X=A000-C7FF NOEMS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
FILES=50
BUFFERS=30
SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /E:2048 /p
STACKS=9,256
lastdrive=z

AUTOEXEC.BAT

This is the famous script that runs the first thing when DOS starts up. 
@echo off
SET TZ=MST7
PATH=C:\NFS;C:\WINDOWS:C:\;C:\DOS;C:\WP51
C:\DRIVERS\CD_ROM\MSCDEX /d:mvcd001 /m:10 /v
prompt=$p$g
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET LMOUSE=C:\DRIVERS\LMOUSE
DOSKEY
LH C:\DRIVERS\LMOUSE\MOUSE.EXE
CLS
VER
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