Word: dos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even Richard Stallman cannot abide by this high standard. To do anything more than beep when it is turned on, a computer needs an operating system. PCs require DOS, Macs use System 7, and workstations and mainframes use UNIX...
Originally introduced in 1985 for the Apple Mackintosh computer, Aldus, based in Seattle, Wash., shipped a DOS version a year later and has relased versions for other computer systems. It became successful for several reasons...
While the first DTP programs, produced during the early eighties, were actually written for PCs built around the Intel 8086 microprocessor and running the MS-DOS operating system, this platform has lagged behind the Macintosh. Most DTP users have preferred the Macintosh's strong support for DTP and the related area of computer graphics...
...trend appears to be changing. Microsoft Windows 3.0, released in June 1990, brought to the DOS world the kind of graphical capabilities long associated with Macintosh. Popular Macintosh DTP packages such as PageMaker, QuarkXPress and FrameMaker have all been ported to the Windows environment. A quick browse of Wordsworth in Harvard Square reveals that of the dozen or so books on QuarkXPress, all but two are on the newly-released version of Windows...
...three or four notebook vendors market machines based on the Intel 80x86 family of microprocessors and running the MS-DOS operating system and often Window. The latest member of the family is the 80486 line, which contains over one million transistors and generally runs at faster speeds than older 286s and 386s...