You just hit the space key and the search box pops up and you type in what you want to find and it finds it for you instantly. They say it is much better than the windows version. Even today there are many, many devotees who are still using this MS-DOS version of the Prabhupada folio. This MS-DOS Prabhupada folio was immensely popular with the devotees. This first MS-DOS version of the Vedabase using the Mormon’s ‘Folio Views’ program was very easy to use and immediately the “Prabhupada Folio” became a must for any ISKCON devotee who wanted to seriously research the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. It turned out to be the perfect program for storing all the teachings of Srila Prabhupada and enabled the Hare Krishna devotees for the first time to use a computer to search through the teachings of Srila Prabhupada. So they came up with a MS-DOS program called “Folio Views”. It is an abbreviation for “Microsoft Disk Operating System…” In those days also the Mormons were looking for a way to use computers to store all their scriptures in a database and allow their members to search through them for research purposes. By Madhudvisa dasa | Full size image 12 MS-DOS Prabhupada Vedabase / Folio Viewsīefore Microsoft invented windows they had another operating system running on their computers called “MS-DOS”.
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