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Originally Posted by Quoth
Basically many programs and companied "died" as DOS faded between 1991 and 1997.
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I came late to the MS-DOS world. For about six or seven years I used a Sinclair QL. When I finally bought an XT PC (about 1992) it came with DR-DOS instead of MS-DOS and that's what I used until my brother decided I needed a 486-SX machine that came with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1. I still mostly ran DOS instead of Windows, but there were a few Windows programs that didn't run well in the limited memory and CPU in straight Windows, but ran great under OS/2 with Windows. So I ran OS/2 (but mostly Windows programs under it) for a few years. Then I built my own computer, installed Windows XP on it and used it until XP was nearing EOL and then I moved to Linux (that's where I've been for 13 years now).
The only time I ran Word or Excel is when I had to use it for work. And even then I was happy when my boss decided to go with OpenOffice instead (for most of us grunts). I never liked Word, it tried to do too much thinking for you, and it produced files with embedded code that seemed almost impossible to eradicate. I haven't used Word for about 15 years. And the only I used Excel is when customers brought their "databases" (spreadsheets) in and I had to convert them to dBase. Now I use Jstar (text editor) and sometimes Emacs and some specialized screenplay software (Trelby, Kit Scenarist). LibreOffice Write is only used when I have to "fancify" a document. Most of my writing is done in Jstar (I like plain text).