Related Technologies & Tools

CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers was a mass-market operating system created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Digital Research, Inc. Initially confined to single-tasking on 8-bit processors and no more than 64 kilobytes of memory, later versions of CP/M added multi-user variations and were migrated to 16-bit processors.

DOS short for Disk Operating System, is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 including the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.

OS/2 is a business productivity tool or professional application used to create, manage, analyze, or communicate information.

It is commonly used to produce, manage, communicate, or analyze business information in professional environments.

Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager (QEMM) was a memory manager produced by Quarterdeck Office Systems in the late 1980s through late 1990s. It was the most popular memory manager for the MS-DOS and other DOS operating systems.

Microsoft Expression Web is a discontinued Microsoft web design and editing application formerly used for standards-based website editing. It is preserved as historical web-development experience rather than a current recruiter-facing web platform.

Additional Resources:

• Microsoft Expression Web overview
• Microsoft Expression Web support discussion
• VA technology reference

Microsoft's ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) comprises a set of Component Object Model (COM) objects for accessing data sources. A part of MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components), it provides a middleware layer between programming languages and OLE DB (a means of accessing data stores, whether databases or not, in a uniform manner).

Additional Resources:

• ActiveX Data Objects - Wikipedia

Microsoft Digital Image is a discontinued raster graphics editor and image organization program suite created by Microsoft. It is a successor to Microsoft Picture It!.

It is commonly used to create, edit, capture, publish, or manage visual and audio media for documentation, training, and communication.

Additional Resources:

• Microsoft Digital Image - Wikipedia

Microsoft FrontPage Microsoft Office FrontPage is a discontinued WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. It was branded as part of the Microsoft Office suite from 1997 to 2003.

Knowledge of it is useful for maintaining historical systems, understanding older file formats, or migrating legacy content and workflows.

Additional Resources:

• Microsoft FrontPage - Wikipedia

Microsoft SharePoint Workspace is a discontinued desktop application designed for document collaboration in teams with members who are regularly off-line or who do not share the same network security clearance. It is no longer included with Microsoft Office 2013.

It is commonly used to coordinate communication, meetings, projects, knowledge sharing, or team workflows.

Additional Resources:

• Microsoft SharePoint Workspace
• Microsoft SharePoint Workspace - Wikipedia

Microsoft InfoPath is a discontinued software application for designing, distributing, filling and submitting electronic forms containing structured data. Microsoft initially released InfoPath as part of the Microsoft Office 2003 family.

Knowledge of it is useful for maintaining historical systems, understanding older file formats, or migrating legacy content and workflows.

Additional Resources:

• Microsoft InfoPath
• Microsoft InfoPath - Wikipedia

Microsoft MapPoint is a discontinued software program and service created by Microsoft that allows users to view, edit and integrate maps. The software and technology are designed to facilitate the geographical visualization and analysis of either included data or custom data.

Knowledge of it is useful for maintaining historical systems, understanding older file formats, or migrating legacy content and workflows.

Additional Resources:

• Microsoft MapPoint - Wikipedia

Microsoft Visual InterDev, part of MicrosoftVisualStudio 97 and 6.0, is an IDE used to create web applications using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) technologies. It has code completion,databaseserver management tools, and an integrated debugger.

Microsoft Works is a legacy software product or computing technology that remains relevant for historical systems, file conversion, or migration work.

Knowledge of it is useful for maintaining historical systems, understanding older file formats, or migrating legacy content and workflows.

ASP - Active Server Pages also known as Classic ASP, is Microsoft's legacy server-side scripting environment for dynamic web pages on IIS. It is preserved as historical web-development and scripting experience rather than a current Skill 29 technology.

Additional Resources:

• ASP overview
• ASP support in Windows
• Active Server Pages overview

BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use.

Versions of BASIC became widespread on microcomputers in the mid-1970s and 1980s. Microcomputers usually shipped with BASIC, often in the machine's firmware. Having an easy-to-learn language on these early personal computers allowed small business owners, professionals, hobbyists, and consultants to develop custom software on computers they could afford.

DHTML is a historical term for combining HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the DOM to create interactive web pages. The underlying technologies remain important, but the DHTML label itself is no longer a current recruiter-facing web-development category.

Additional Resources:

• Dynamic HTML overview
• DOM on MDN
• Web Design Museum DHTML history

Edlin is a line editor, and the only text editor provided with early versions of MS-DOS. Although superseded in MS-DOS 5.0 and later by the full-screen edit command, and by Notepad in Microsoft Windows, it continues to be included in the 32-bit versions of current Microsoft operating systems.

GW-BASIC is a dialect of the programming language BASIC developed by Microsoft from BASICA, originally for Compaq. It is otherwise identical to Microsoft/IBM BASICA, but is a fully self-contained executable. It was bundled with MS-DOS operating systems on IBM PC compatibles by Microsoft. 

Visual FoxProis a data-centricobject-orientedprocedural programming languageproduced by Microsoft. It is derived from FoxPro (originally known asFoxBASE) which was developed by Fox Software beginning in 1984.

QBasic (Microsoft Quick Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is an IDE and interpreter for a variant of the BASIC programming language which is based on QuickBASIC. Code entered into the IDE is compiled to an intermediate form, and this intermediate form is immediately interpreted on demand within the IDE.

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is a development, testing, version-control, or project tool used to build, maintain, document, or manage technical work.

It is commonly used to develop, debug, version, document, test, or manage software and technical projects.

Alpha Five is a relational database management system and rapid application development platform (RAD) for building desktop, web and cross platform mobile applications.

dBASE was one of the first and in its day the most successful database management systems for microcomputers. The dBase system includes the core database engine, a query system, a forms engine, and a programming language that ties all of these components together. dBase's underlying file format, the .dbf file, is widely used in applications needing a simple format to store structured data.

FoxPro is a text-based procedurally oriented programming language and DBMS, originally published by Fox Software and later by Microsoft, for MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. Although FoxPro is a Database Management System (DBMS) it does support relationships between tables, it is not considered a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), lacking transactional processing.

Paradox is a relational database management system currently published by Corel Corporation. It was originally released for DOS by Ansa Software, and then by Borland after it bought the company.

Paradox/DOS was a successful DOS-based database of the late eighties and early nineties. At that time, dBase and its xBase clones (Foxpro, Clipper) dominated the market.

Adobe Contribute (formerly Macromedia Contribute) is a web publishing and website management tool that integrates authoring, reviewing, and publishing in a WYSIWYG HTML editor. The purpose is to increase web publishing productivity collaboratively while simplifying oversight and approval tasks.

WordPerfect is a word processing application owned by Corel with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms.

WordStar is a word processor application that had a dominant market share during the early- to mid-1980s. Formerly published by MicroPro International it was originally written for the CP/M operating system but later ported to DOS.

Macromedia Authorware (now part of Adobe Systems) was an interpreted, flowchart-based, graphical programming language. Authorware is used for creating interactive programs that can integrate a range of multimedia content, particularly e-learning applications. The flowchart model differentiates Authorware from other authoring tools, such as Adobe Flash and Adobe Director, which rely on a visual stage, time-line and script structure.

Macromedia Breeze is software used to create information and general presentations, online training materials, web conferencing, learning modules, and user desktop sharing.

CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its acronym CIS) was the first major commercial online service in the United States. It dominated the field during the 1980s and remained a major player through the mid-1990s, when it was sidelined by the rise of services such as AOL with monthly subscriptions rather than hourly rates. 

Adobe Fireworks (formerly Macromedia Fireworks) is a bitmap and vector graphics editor. Fireworks is made for web designers for rapidly creating website prototypes and application interfaces. Its features include slices and the ability to add hotspots. It is designed to integrate with other Adobe products such as Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash.

Adobe Flash (formerly called "Macromedia Flash") is a multimedia and software platform used for creating vector graphics, animation, games and rich Internet applications (RIAs) that can be viewed, played and executed in Adobe Flash Player. Flash is frequently used to add streamed video or audio players, advertisement and interactive multimedia content to web pages.

PageMaker was one of the first desktop publishing programs, introduced in 1985 by Aldus, initially for the then-new Apple Macintosh and in 1987 for PCs running Windows 1.0. As an application relying on a graphical user interface, PageMaker helped to popularize the Macintosh platform and the Windows environment.

Adobe FreeHand (formerly Macromedia Freehand) is a computer application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics that are oriented primarily to professional illustration, desktop publishing and content creation for the Web.