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Comment by 1970-01-01

22 days ago

The screenshots show the program was made for DOS. Very likely Windows was used just for network file sharing.

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RaftPeople  21 days ago

Ya, RPG assumed character based IO so probably a safe bet that they just ported stuff that ran on IBM character based terminals and just made it run in DOS. (I worked in RPG in the 80's)

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