Hi, On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 6:04 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 5:39 PM andrew fabbro via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > Whatever programs are most representative, they might have been > > distributed as shareware. There's still "trial software" today but > > not like going to a BBS and seeing hundreds of shareware packages, > > or getting a CD stuffed with them. > > I agree! I first used DOS when DOS was new (1981) but by the time I > moved to university (1990) shareware had definitely taken hold. And > shareware was just as powerful as the "commercial off the shelf" > software but a fraction of the price. And that was a huge deal for a > university student.
Although I never had any professional use for higher maths (and have thus forgotten what little I learned in school), there was a cool shareware calculator UCALC by Daniel Corbier. * https://www.sac.sk/download/educult/ucalc32.zip _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
