From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:07:14 GMT   
   scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   This is a nicely self-illustrative post, in that you start out with an   
   incendiary but extremely blinkered (if not flatly untrue) statement and   
   then spend the remainder of it relocating the goalposts to align with   
   where you kicked the ball. *Plenty* of business software ran on MS-DOS,   
   same as other single-tasking, unprotected microcomputer OSes that card-   
   carrying partisans of larger systems like to count as "not a *real* OS"   
   Because Reasons, and it's only by redefining "real business" to mean   
   "large (multi)national corporations" and "business software" to mean   
   "end-to-end computerized management of the entire business enterprise"   
   that you can even move your argument out of the realm of "demonstrably   
   false" and into "arguable, sort of, if you can get people to accept   
   your definitions exclusively."   
      
   C-, see me after class.   
      
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