Most of us coding at the time only cared about Turbo Vision, starting with Turbo Pascal 6. and Turbo C++ 3.0.

Or the other variant being TUI libraries for Clipper.

By 1994, most folks on PC were already doing Windows 3.x, and only using MS-DOS for games.

I only got to learn about curses years later.

>in 1994? You wish. Turbo C++/Pascal was widely used under DOS, things truly began to change with WIndows 95 and even until 1997 DOS wasn't fully dead because it had very complex uses with DOS extenders. Windows 95 was an unstable piece of crap and for tons of industrial cases tons of people booted it in DOS mode to launch really advanced software. By 1994 you would even get multimedia CD's made for DOS with ease.

	▲	pjmlp 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, I am a 70's child that started coding in 1986. By 1994, most people already had Turbo Pascal and C++ on Windows 3.x, I happen to have such boxes. Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5 and Turbo Pascal 7 both supported Windows 3.x. Turbo C++ 3.1 onwards also did Windows 3.x. Industrial use cases used purpose built OSes, and unstable piece of crap applies to all 8 and 16 bit home computer OSes without MMUs.