[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[willgolfforfood]

Doom. Definitely.

Oh, yeah, and this little Star Trek game I have on a floppy at home. If you want to keep Klingons from circling Uranus, this is the app for you!!

[Chi-townChief]

Primarily Lotus, Excel, AutoCAD, MSProject, PowerPoint, MOST, and our ERP is Vantage.

[jaydubya2]

1990: Windows 3.0

I would not consider an operating system an "app". I may even have a difficult time considering Windows 3.0 an "operating system".

[stainlessbanner]

1998 VMWare.

[ShadowAce]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

matlab 4.0 (for windows, unix, VMS, and what have you) made engineers and analysts 10X more productive. Matlab truly is the language of engineering.

[garyhope]

OK, I read his, now let's read yours. Thanks.

P.S. My first computer was a DEC Rainbow. It was very expensive and almost obsolete the minute it came out because of it's weird version of MS DOS. Thanks Ken Olsen.

[relictele]

It's not really an app but I vote for yEnc.

If you have to ask.....

[Poser]

Let me add Quicken to the list.

[KoRn]

Outlook Express!!

/sarc

[tacticalogic]

EDLIN.

[neb52]

My current company uses Lotus Notes and is switching to Outlook/Exchange to match the rest of the Corp. that purchased us last year. This was the first time I had ever used Lotus and the cool factor wore off quick when I realized how primitive it was compared to Outlook/Exchange. The first coporate groupware mail program I used was MS Mail. It was pretty simple and easy, but Exchange 5.5 was a major imporvement.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

i still use Lotus SmartSuite when i'm working in Windows. If i ever get smart enough to be able to use WINE, i'll be using it out of SuSE. Love it.

[kidd]

I'm surprised that WordPerfect didn't make the list.
It was THE PC-based word processor of the late 80s and was a predacessor to MS Word.

Myst was the game that first made graphics so important for gamers.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

MS Flight Simulator.

[No Truce With Kings]

Man, that list brings back memories. I remember when I first encountered WordStar. It was like a miracle. You could edit ON THE *FLY*. Cool stuff for someone who grew up writing school papers on an electronic typewriter.

[Grut]

Can't believe nobody's mentioned Photoshop yet.

[avg_freeper]

ksh, grep, sed, xargs, perl, vim, excel, nastran, patran, matlab

[sure_fine]

does say how to record on your VCR while watching another channel?, how about setting that darn clock?