Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

[Felix Miata via Freedos-user]

Jim Hall via Freedos-user composed on 2023-12-24 22:33 (UTC-0600):

> 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?

Lotus 1-2-3's original series of releases is where it has to start. I used it 
for
several years at home and at work before adding WordPerfect (5.1 initially,
eventually 6.2) and NC. After discovering Quattro Pro 4.0 I switched, but kept 
the
optional use of 1-2-3 style menus. I'm still using the last QPro for DOS version
5.6 (according to its README), under eComStation (OS/2 evolved) @132x43 text 
mode
(800x600) using Radeon X600 in Core2Duo.  I still have Paradox for DOS too, 
4.02.
Before Warp 4 I was running them all several years in DesqView 386 with QEMM on 
PC
DOS again after a few years with MS DOS 5 post-PC DOS 3.3. My eCS Core2Duo still
can boot PC DOS 2000 too.
-- 
Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion,
based on faith, not based on science.

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

Felix Miata


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[Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

[Jim Hall via Freedos-user]

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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