30 Jan
2014
30 Jan
'14
1:50 a.m.
> PCTools, in order to avoid the "absolutely
intolerable" situation of
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Liam Proven wrote:
That is pretty scary, but I'm curious. Back in the
day - late 1980s -
I used PC Tools heavily. It was one of my go-to, er, well, tools for
data recovery, disk defragging, rapid backup to floppy, etc.
But that's all it did. It was a utilities toolkit.
What were you using it for? It had no productivity apps that I recall...
"PC Desktop"?? within it.
TSR text editor, and other "accessory" programs.
Did they drop those from later PCTools?
It provided some simple basic task switching for DOS, without the extreme
overhead of Windoze.
Until I ran into the disabled critical error handler, it was doing OK.