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A quick look back at Corel Linux OS, another attempt to make a competing Windows-like OS (www.neowin.net)

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Anyone else remember Corel Linux?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Since you mentioned it (paradox) there was a small outfit that build a wonderful dbase(4,5) oriented db manipulation suite that run straight on DOS (5 5.1) and it would run circles around anything available for win3.1.. etc.
It was called Alpha

Those win based spreadsheet/db programs had to draw the entire data set in gfx mode which took for ever by machines of the time if you worked with large datasets. I miss it and whish something like it was available as tui/cli

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