I deleted my MS Dos. Got any hints to reinstall it?
My son has done a lot of fixes for GNU. Ultimately he’d like to find some sort of employment with people who value the open source movement. Are there such employment opportunities and if so, how would he go about finding them?
Thanks for any insights you might have.
Lotus 1-2-3 Release 5. That’s what I learned on for spreadsheets. Excel of the day was a let-down. Then everyone went to office. Meh. Word-Perfect was also much easier to use and better than anything Microsoft put out for over a decade.
BTTT
I loved working in DOS in the ‘80s and ‘90s — WordPerfect, Lotus, Paradox, Sprint, etc.
It made sense.
According to co-founder Paul Allen, who was still working at Microsoft in 1981, the D in DOS actually stood for DIRTY, as in Down and Dirty OS - or - Quick and Dirty OS.
Since then, the consensus has become Disk or Digital OS.
The original creator of DOS refused to sell for a fixed price, asking for royalties instead.
IBM declined that offer.
Bill Gates discovered a computer parts manufacturer that was using a variant of DOS to test their Intel chip powered components coming off the production line.
According to legend, Gates paid $50,000 for full rights to the chip tester OS.
The rest of the story is business history!