Software I have used

Having started in the industry in the mid 1970’s I have used a lot of software.  I decided to try to remember some of the old programs that I had used way back then.  The following list is in no particular order.  See how many you used.

  • IBM’s JCL (job control scripting language)
  • PC Write (by Bob Wallace – no relation)
  • Lotus 123
  • dBase
  • Corel Draw
  • gopher and veronica
  • mosaic
  • adventure
  • vi
  • PageMaker
  • TeX and LaTex
  • DEC Runoff (predecessor of Unix roff and nroff)

and Operating Systems:

  • Data General RDOS
  • IBM OS/360
  • CP/M
  • GEM
  • MS-DOS
  • Microsoft Windows (3.1, 3.5 4.0 2000 XP Vista)
  • Windows CE
  • Unbuntu Linux
  • BSD Unix
  • UNIX System III
  • VxWorks
  • TOPS-20
  • RT-11
  • VMS
  • PRIMOS

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