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This is my favorite WordPerfect-related photograph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WordPerfect_for_Unix_Syst...

It's WordPerfect. Distributed on 9-track tape. In German.

Back then, companies made an effort to support as many people as possible. I remember Infocom simultaneously publishing its games for Atari, Amiga, and PDP-11 machines.

Today, if you're not Mac or Windows, you're an "edge case" and not worthy of the effort.



> Back then, companies made an effort to support as many people as possible.

Companies pretty much had to make an effort to support as many people as possible back then. It wasn't until the early to mid 1990's that Windows became the dominant platform. Even though MS-DOS had a huge market share before Windows, other platforms had enough of a presence in homes and industry to justify cross-platform support. (And more important during the end of the DOS era, no one really knew how the future would turn out even though it was unlikely that DOS would be a part of it.)




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