GoKawiilNorton Commander's origins traced: John Socha created DOS file manager in 1984-1986
A retrospective by Dr Nikolai Bezroukov recounts the development of Norton Commander, the DOS-era dual-pane file manager created by John Socha between 1984 and 1986 as version 1.0. The piece notes that NC went through five major versions and that die-hard users, including a reader from Bogota, Colombia, were still running version 1.0 on Windows 98SE, 2000 and XP decades later.