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. * > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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