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What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

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274 points rbanffy | 3 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.652s | source
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90s_dev ◴[16 May 25 13:31 UTC] No.44005319[source]▶
Word Perfect!!! I'm almost positive that was the editor they taught me in the early 1990s in grammar school! (We called it grammar school back then, for it was the 1800s.) And yet I had never seen or used it since. This brings back so many memories. I was sitting next to a girl named Dana, the only Dana I ever met.
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1. teddyh ◴[16 May 25 14:14 UTC] No.44005787[source]▶
Maybe her parents liked Ghostbusters?
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2. jonhohle ◴[16 May 25 14:36 UTC] No.44006028[source]▶
While it’s hard to imagine someone using Word Perfect in grammar school born during or after 1984, I hold out hope that her middle initial was “Z”.

That said, I believe I learned spreadsheets in high school using Lotus for DOS in 1996, but can’t imagine kids 3 years later still doing the same.

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3. xp84 ◴[16 May 25 17:49 UTC] No.44008089[source]▶
I'm around that age. In poorer areas we just had whatever cast-off computers. Circa 1995, my grammar school featured:

- A Franklin ACE (Apple ][ Clone) with an amber screen and two floppy drives

- An Atari ST with a daisywheel printer (Letter quality!)

The newest additions to the school were:

- A Compaq 386 with an amber screen - this is where we had WordPerfect

- A Tandy 1000, 8086 with DOS and a color monitor. Not sure if it could do VGA, definitely CGA was a thing. We ran Where in The World Is Carmen Sandiego and a paint program on that. Because it was in my classroom, this was really the first computer I learned exhaustively. I read its MS-DOS manual cover to cover and enjoyed writing batch files, building launcher menus, etc.