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Re:Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta by dchest on Saturday March 31, 2018 @03:29AM (#16722228)
Norton Commander (and its clones, such as Volkov Commander, DOS Navigator) was very popular in ex-USSR — almost every computer running DOS (the majority of PCs in ex-USSR back then) had nc running as the main user interface to the PC, and was introduced in most computer education courses in the 90's.
Re:Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta by badsectoracula on Saturday March 31, 2018 @10:57AM (#16723547)
I always found it amusing that in Chasm: The Rift (a midlate-90s FPS for DOS made by Action Forms, a Ukrainian game developer), the computer monitors had Norton Commander running:

https://i.imgur.com/63dPueK.png

Re:Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta by noir_lord on Saturday March 31, 2018 @04:00AM (#16722299)
For me it was Xtree, that was my favorite file manager ever.
Re:Marta, file manager for macOS, goes beta by abcd_f on Saturday March 31, 2018 @05:32AM (#16722542)
In fact NC was so ubiquitous that it had jokes about it printed in computer magazines and circulating on the Fido network.