The first MS-DOS I used was MS-DOS 3.3 at the school computer lab, however when eventually I got my own PC, it came with DR-DOS 5, and the Gem inspired ViewMax.

https://www.seasip.info/Gem/History/viewmax1.html

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cout 4 days ago | parent [-]

I wanted to like viewmax, but I think Digital Research was short-sighted. They intended it to compete with dosshell.exe, but the real competitor was windows. I was excited to get to play with GEM, but I had no way to write programs for it.

	▲	pjmlp 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Back then it still wasn't a given that Windows would really take off as it did. For example, I only got that computer because getting one with OS/2 was out of my budget, and actually what I really wanted but for several reasons did not buy one, was an Amiga.