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This is the Amstrad PCW file manager...
Nice readable fonts, 4 directory listings visible at once, RAM disk, limbo storage (deleted files that can still be recovered until their storage space is needed).
Wow! All this running on a little Z80... Even today's Unix console file managers are crappy in comparison.
And it sounds like the rest of the software was simple and easy to work with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PCW
Not like Microsoft Word and others where people take cla$$e$ to just be able to do basic stuff at their job.
Things sure changed in the computer world, and not for the better. I for one can't wait to retire one day and never touch modern software again. I'll just tell my bank to send paper statements, and use only Lynx for browsing, and run a dialup/telnet BBS and shit like that. Amiga had some good ones...

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