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The Best File Managers In the World
When it comes to computing, I love, even prefer, a GUI. Let me add the caveat that I love an intuitive GUI. Now I acknowledge that what is intuitive to me may not at all be intuitive to someone else, and that’s something to keep in mind.
One of my first jobs in technology happened in the mid-80s, and I was writing dBase III code on an 8Mhz IBM AT that had a CGA card and was thus capable of graphics, most of my computing was done in a DOS terminal in monochrome. I became very adept in using the command-line and related flags. Prior to the extensive DOS command-line exposure, I used to sell and install Xenix Systems for Tandy; Xenix was my first exposure to a Unix operating system. I got fairly proficient at it for the time, at least on the relatively ancient Unix dialect that Xenix was. I say all this to say that while I cut my teeth using command-line interfaces, some things, like file systems, are better represented by a GUI.
Sometime around 1986 I stumbled across an amazing little program called Norton Commander, written and developed in x86 Assembly by an extremely talented programmer by the name of John Socha and published by Peter Norton Computing. Norton Commander was this brilliant little file-management shell that ran on-top-of (and in conjunction with) DOS:
