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