Hi Jim,
I was a kid in late 80s and early 90s but I remember few DOS programs
that my father used and then many games I played :-)
MS-DOS 6.22 with embedded applications like Edit was first OS I remember
(later with Windows 3.11). And for programs I remember M602 (Czech
Norton Commander clone), T602 as text editor and Calc602 as spreadsheet
editor and some map application from Czech company PJSoft but I don`t
remember the name. Then I remember Turbo Pascal and Borland C.
Petr
Dne 27.12.2023 v 20:55 Aitor Santamaría via Freedos-user napsal(a):
Hello Jim,
I'm giving my own view that I've lived from this corner of the world.
As for operating systems/environments, it was mostly MS-DOS 3.X, 5.X
and 6.22, and of course, Windows 3.1 (before the arrival of Windows95).
I heard of machines having DR-DOS or OS/2, but did never quite catch up.
As for applications, Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect and dBase III or IIIplus
were coping with most of the business market and training market.
I had heard (and seen) of Multiplian and Microsoft Works, but I never
really heard or watched a big stack of Microsoft's Word, Excel or
Access until the Windows versions after (and including Office95).
Lotus AmiPro (Windows only) was relatively known, but WordPerfect for
Windows (nor, for example, Lotus Approach) never caught up well.
As for programming Borland products specially, I would say.
And finally for graphics design, I would say Corel Draw!. I was never
an intensive user of publishing software, but around me, the Aldus
programs (like Photostyler and Pagemaker) were better known to me that
Adobe's ones, until Photoshop took over.
I know I have mentioned some that are Windows only. I would be very
happy to see, for example, FreeDOS+Windows 3.1+Lotus Ami Pro working,
but I have never tried that myself. Back in this mailing lists, IIRC,
I posted myself a MS-Paint image over Windows 3.1 over FreeDOS, but
AmiPro is quite a more complex beast to run.
Aitor
On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 at 05:34, Jim Hall via Freedos-user
<freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on
DOS. I sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could
you really do *work* with DOS?" And the answer is /of course you
can, that happened every day./
So I'm collecting a list of things you'd do in the 80s and 90s
with DOS to do work. Sure, I'll put a game it two in there, but
I'm focusing on getting work done.
What programs or types of programs would you like to see?
__
/*For myself:/
/I've done some videos about DOS apps, but nothing like "here's
how I did everyday work." When I think back to my 1980s and 1990s
(especially the early 90s) I think of my time at university as a
physics undergrad. So that's a spreadsheet and a word processor
for sure. Probably make a simple chart then include that chart in
a "lab report" document (or at least leave room in the document to
print it when I print on a dot matrix printer). Probably a dialup
terminal to talk to the uni committee lab? File manager. And a
compiler to write my own tools./
/
/
/The only difference is for the video I'll try to highlight
FreeDOS distro tools as much as possible, like Doszip for the file
manager. /
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