Am 05.08.2015 um 11:29 schrieb Stephen:
> On 8/4/2015 10:05 PM, clipka wrote:
>> Am 04.08.2015 um 22:32 schrieb Stephen:
>>
>>>> And then there was the keyboard of my first own PC. One of the things I
>>>> did pretty early after unboxing was to install some Norton Commander
>>>> clone which, as you may recall, made heavy use of the function keys as
>>>> hotkeys for important stuff; I knew most of them by heart.
>>>
>>> That passed me by. Norton became a resource hog and I stopped using it
>>> early on.
>>
>> You should have tried Volkov Commander. Same functionality as NC plus
>> some more, yet still magnitudes smaller. Good old Russian assembler
>> coding. I made sure to put it on all my boot disks.
>>
> I've used AVG for years and when that started to slow down my machine. I
> swapped to MS Essentials.

Wait... you're talking about anti-virus software, right?

That's not what Norton Commander was.

NC was a file manager for good old DOS, which allowed scrollable 
side-by-side viewing of two directories, copying stuff between both 
sides, and doing other fancy stuff, while at the same time always giving 
you a command prompt; it also came with integrated text and hex editors 
(or at least that's how I remember it; the hex editor might have been a 
Volkov Commander extension).

Total Commander still keeps up the tradition of Norton Commander clones.

Norton Commander was part of a package called Norton Utilities, which 
also included tools for disk defragmenting, data rescue (Norton Disk 
Doctor), and some such.

IIRC Norton Antivirus was a later invention.

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