But I'm not talking about Intel 386 or 486 boxes. There were an incredible variety of very functional programs that could be used on XTs as well as some pretty cool games such as "Commander Keene" or Tetrus. Somewhere I have a 3-dimensional chess game, and many other programs which were usually "Buttonware", freeware, or postcardware programs, many of which surpassed the big software companies products for many of the later processors. One such I've used since Dos days is CMFiler a much more capable Norton Commander type of progam which still unbelievably works even on W98. Then of course there was DR's GEM, Framework, Deskview, and Deskmate and many others including an Ashton Tate program which I can't recall but had a WP, DB, and a good graphics program.
It is becoming harder to find these programs but many of them are still out there, many times in european archives.
And some of course in my BBS hungry downloads. Some of them on disk I have. I do slack. :^{ Beat me, beat me.
XTs were really exciting for the time and it's our own fault that we burden them with so many of the tedius business programs that> I B M < called forth. What was so wonderous about an XT with Dos 2.1 ,WP , and Lotus 123 ? Except to accountants. That wonderful class of "bean-counters" who were only of interest to corporations or IBM.
But there were some visionaries who saw it's possible use in the world of ordinary people.
Lawrence