123 was indeed ported to UNIX, I have that working as well! https://github.com/taviso/123elf
(Although it was more likely procalc - a popular low-end lotus clone)
I'm also working on porting dBase IV, another popular package from the era :)
(Although it was more likely procalc - a popular low-end lotus clone)
I'm also working on porting dBase IV, another popular package from the era :)
Lotus Agenda for DOS is unmatched to this day, despite an epic reboot catastrophe, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Applications_Found...
The mission of the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) was..
Carry forward the vision of Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart, and Ted Nelson of the computer as a medium for communication, collaboration, and coordination.
Design a new application to manage personal information including notes, mail, tasks, appointments and events, contacts, documents and other personal resources.
Enable sharing with colleagues, friends and family. In particular, meet the unique and under-served needs of small group collaboration.
I keep on hoping that some day the IBM mainframe port (MVS and VM/CMS) might turn up. It was further away from the DOS original than the UNIX port was, due to the changes required by 3270 block mode terminals.
One of these days, an AI is going to be able to construct realistic-looking source code which compiles to an identical binary using contemporaneous tools. It may become very hard to tell the genuine vintage source code apart from the AI deepfake decompilation