A salesman from another software company said LIGHTS is a DOS program. Is It?
LIGHTS from SoftLight was born in 1984, six years before Microsoft released their first commercially successful Windows 3.0 operating system. At that time DOS was what all software ran on. As Microsoft made this and newer Windows versions available, LIGHTS was rewritten to keep pace with the leading technology of the day. Today, LIGHTS has grown into a full 32 bit Windows program that runs on all Windows versions as well as Linux, but like all modern business software, it will not run on DOS. SoftLight has attempted to keep our original easy to learn and easy to use screens, many of them in a text format that do not require the user to be constantly reaching for a mouse. Our users say that this structure enables them to work much, much more quickly and efficiently than a full GUI format, and we listened to them. If a salesman from another software company tells you that our package is a DOS program, they are either ignorant of computer systems or trying to mislead you from learning the
