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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: z/PDOS-generic
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:09:21 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <CLGzP.935496$t84d.363634@fx11.iad>,
Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>"Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com> writes:
>>"Salvador Mirzo" <smirzo@example.com> wrote in message
>>news:874j00yfpr.fsf@example.com...
>>Note that MSDOS was used for a very long time in business
>
>Not really.  Most business software ran on mainframes
>and minicomputers in the MSDOS era.  And once NT arrived, DOS was done.
>
>There was very little _real_ business software written for
>MSDOS.
>
>Spreadsheets and word processing are a very small portion of
>business computing.  Material planning, resource planning,
>human resources, enterprise payroll applications, etc
>were not really available for MSDOS at any scale.

Hear, hear.

>>and I never heard anyone call it a toy at the time. 
>
>Then you weren't listening.

He's still not.

	- Dan C.