Lotus 1-2-3
The two most popular were probably Lotus 1-2-3 and Borland Quattro.
Lotus 123 was a very early successful spreadsheet program that could run on DOS. The first spreadsheet, VisiCalc, was designed for the Apple, but there was a DOS version later. Quattro was another spreadsheet that ran through DOS. Before the first Windows operating system, there was a Windows interface that ran on DOS and there was versions of Excel that could run in those versions of Windows.
Drivers can be downloaded from Intel's site. They are also included in the popular Crynwr driver package for DOS. Both are in the "Related links" section below.
yes word star is dos based word processor
No, DOS is command based only - not Windows based which is a graphic user interface.
DOS has three primary components, the resident disk handier, the File Management System (FMS), and the Disk Utility Package (DUP).
No. Spreadsheet programs do not control or interact directly with the hardware (some DOS ones may have had their own printer drivers). They also do not provide an API for other applications to run on top of them.
Access the hardware directly: possible in DOS, not possible in Windows.
Use any dos emulator like DOSBox
relevance of ms dos to typewriting
No. Linux is a free, open-source version of UNIX. Many of DOS's commands were based on UNIX commands, but the underlying operating system is much more powerful than DOS.
DOS.