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Much of library microcomputing was initially concentrated on one platform: the IBM PC and its compatibles or equivalents elsewhere. The world of DOS, the IBM or Microsoft standard Disk Operating System — the ‘DOS C:>Prompt’—that began to dominate in business environments with the introduction of spreadsheet programs such as Lotus 1–2–3, also became a de facto standard librarian‐user interface to the world of information. Presentations at library microcomputer conferences and published descriptions of applications and procedures featured DOS‐based systems. For example, of the more than 3,000 entries in a comprehensive bibliography on the application of microcomputers to library operations published in 1987, fewer than 100 were identified in the index as being done on products of the Apple Corporation of Cupertino, California.