During the DOS years, I used XTree a lot for moving things and general file management.
During the early DOS years, I used Professional Write. Eventually, I moved on to the Lotus Suite. But as with the platforms that came before, I spent most of my time in DOS writing code. Mainly that consisted of GW-BASIC, followed by Microsoft QuickBasic then moving to Turbo Pascal (and it’s inline assembler). :-) > On Dec 24, 2023, at 11:33 PM, 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. > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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