American Heritage Electronic Dictionary (1991) 0 Reference DOS

Houghton Mifflin American Heritage Electronic Dictionary is a resident background program that gives you instant searchable access to an entire dictionary.

• 1.x
• 3.0

Apple Lisa Office System (1984) 0 Other

The Lisa Office System was the operating system, graphical desktop, and office suite designed for and shipped with the Apple Lisa computer. It was Apple's first attempt at creating a fully graphical operating environment. This included a graphical desktop, drop down menus, common input controls, multiple windowed applications and data sharing between applications.

• 3.x

Apple Lisa Pascal Workshop (1983) 2 Other

The Apple Lisa Workshop is a set of development tools and a command-line oriented operating environment that was used to develop all software for the Apple Lisa computer. It had variants for multiple languages including Pascal, Cobol, and Basic. Although it was mostly text-based, it did use a GUI code editor. The Workshop ran separately from the Lisa Office System, and developers would switch back and forth while developing their programs.

• 1.0
• 2.0
• 3.0

AppleWorks (1986) 3 Word Processor Spreadsheet Presentations Graphics Communications Database Other

AppleWorks is an all-in-one Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Database, Graphics Editor, and Presentations tool. The original product was a text-based product for the Apple II. The Apple Macintosh and Windows versions were forked from ClarisWorks in 1998 by Apple. At the time, Apple was under a lot of pressure to have a direct alternative to Microsoft Office. There were serious concerns that Microsoft might pull Microsoft Office for the Macintosh from development.

• 2.x (Apple II)

Arity Prolog Compiler (1986) 0 DOS

The Arity Prolog Compiler is an implementation of the Prolog language. It features a compiler that creates high speed executables in addition to an interpreter. It competed against the less expensive Borland Turbo Prolog.

• 4.x
• 6.x

Borland dBase Compiler (1993) 1 DOS

Borland dBase Compiler is a dBase add-on that enables developers to create standalone high speed compiled dBase application. Developed by Ashton-Tate, the creators of dBase, it guarantees 100% compatibility with existing dBase applications. Applications built with the dBase Compiler do not require that the dBase product be installed, nor does it require any distribution royalties. Compiled applications will run many times faster than in dBase's interpreted environment. It includes support for 386 systems.

• 2.x

Borland Reflex (1985) 1 Database DOS

Borland Reflex, first released in 1984 by Analytica and bought by Borland, is a flat file database system with a fully graphical user interface and built in graphing. The Macintosh version of Borland Reflex]was based on the Macintosh database product Interlace from Singular Software.

• 1.x
• 2.0

Borland Turbo Assembler (1989) 32 DOS Windows

Turbo Assembler is an x86 16-bit assembler from Borland. It competed against, and was often cited as faster than Microsoft Macro Assembler.

• 1.x
• 2.x
• 4.x
• 5.x

Breadbox Ensemble (2001) 8 DOS

First released in 2002, Breadbox Ensemble from Breadbox Computer Company, was a commercial office application suite for DOS that was based on GEOS/Geoworks and New Deal Office.

• 4.x

Calendar Creator Plus (1990) 1 Novelty PIM DOS

Calendar Creator Plus from Vermont Creative Software/Power Up, and later Spinnaker Software, is a tool for creating printed calendars with different styles and custom lists of events.

• 3.x (DOS)

Celebrity (1987) 0 Word Processor DOS

Celebrity is a powerful word processing program that includes a Speller, Thesaurus, Forms System, Report Writer, Calculator, Calendar, and File Cabinet. It was advertised as a solution for novice users, however the command based interface makes it less than user friendly.

• 1.0

Computer Shopper FastFiler (1993) 0 Utility DOS

FastFiler, from Ziff-Davis Publishing Company and Strange Software LTD, is a rudimentary easy to use file manager shell. It was sold alongside Computer Shopper magazines. While it offers a friendlier interface than the DOS command prompt, it has fewer features and abilities than competing file managers.

• 1.x

Davong Hard Disk Controller Drivers (1982) 0 DOS

This is the driver software used to configure and access a Davong internal hard disk controller for the IBM PC. This controller was significant as being one of the few hard disk systems accessible under DOS 1.x. system instead partitions the disk in to several smaller drives.

• 2.4

Digital Research PL/I Compiler (1983) 2 DOS CPM

PL/I is a programming language oriented towards scientific and business programming. Digital Research provided implementations for their CP/M operating system as well as MS-DOS.

• 1.x

DoubleDisk (1991) 0 Utility DOS

First released in 1989, DoubleDisk was the first real-time drive compression product for DOS. It is a fairly no-frills program and sticks to what it does best. It was relatively low cost compared to its later competitors. and Expandz! Plus

• 2.5
• 2.6

DoubleDOS (1984) 1 Utility DOS

DoubleDOS is a simple and easy to use multitasking tool for DOS. It can preemptively run up to two DOS programs at a time. Its main advantage is that it requires very little RAM overhead compared to other multitasking or task switching environments. Because DOS programs can and usually do bypass OS calls, many programs must be "patched" in order to work. things at once, then this would have been a good choice. Reportedly, the first version may have worked with DOS 1.x.

• 2.x
• 4.02

Eagle 1630-40 Software Master (1983) 0 DOS

This disk contains the default set of application files loaded on to an Eagle 1600 hard disk drive. (But not the system files). Initialization Diskette" that contains the Eagle Computer-specific MS-DOS 1.25 system files and hard disk formatting tools.

• 1

Eagle PC Test and Initialization (1985) 0 DOS

This disk contains diagnostics and hard drive setup programs for the Eagle PC, Turbo, Spirit, and PC-Plus. This does NOT work with the Eagle 1600. It includes diagnostics tests for the Eagle CGA card, and their proprietary monochrome graphics card.

• 1.x

EagleCalc (1983) 1 Spreadsheet DOS

EagleCalc is an electronic spreadsheet for working with tabular data consisting of 255 rows and 64 columns. It was based on Lattice Inc's Ultracalc, a spreadsheet for CP/M systems, and designed to emulate VisiCalc and Microsoft Multiplan.

• 2.0

EagleWriter (1983) 0 Word Processor DOS

EagleWriter by Lexisoft is a word processing and office management package that offers flexible print format and output capabilities, macro capabilities, and ease of use. EagleWriter is customized for the Eagle computer function keys and help feature.

• 2.0

EasyFiler (1982) 0 DOS

EasyFiler is a flat file database from Information Unlimited Software, the publishers of EasyWriter. Although flexible, and powerful enough for the time, it was criticized as not nearly as easy as the name might suggest.

• 1.0

Editor Assembler TI-994a (1981) 0 Other

Editor Assembler is a native development system for the TI-99/4A. It features a text editor, a TMS9900 machine code assembler, and sample code including an assembler version of "Tombstone City".

• 1981

Electric Desk (1984) 0 Word Processor Spreadsheet Communications Database DOS

Electric Desk is an all-in-one integrated word processor, spreadsheet, database, and terminal program. It was first introduced in 1984 as a low-overhead office package targeted at the IBM PCjr, and was offered as a lower cost alternative to Ashton-Tate Framework and Lotus Symphony. Electric desk features windowing, macros, and context sensitive menus. The user interface is a little eccentric. It refers to the program components as "services", and refers to windows as "viewports". OEM bundled PC software.

• 1.x

Electric Pencil (1983) 1 Word Processor DOS

Electric Pencil, which first appeared in 1976 for the MITS Altiar, is the first word processor for home/micro computer systems. It was ported to many other systems, including the SOL-20, NothStar Horizon, and TRS-80. Eventually an enhanced/re-written version was created for the IBM PC.

• PC

Enable (1985) 0 Word Processor Spreadsheet Communications Database DOS

Enable, from The Software Group, is an integrated office suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet, telecommunications program, and database. It was designed to compete with Lotus Symphony, and was sometimes bundled with Zenith computers.

• 1.10