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At least GEM for MS-DOS and Atari called them "applications" or "application programs" back in 1985 and they ever had an .app extension. EDIT: also Windows its
by badsectoracula 6y ago
At least GEM for MS-DOS and Atari called them "applications" or "application programs" back in 1985 and they ever had an .app extension.
EDIT: also Windows itself uses the term to refer to any program. I do not have the older stuff around, but at least since Windows 3.1, the reference help file that came with some compilers uses the term application everywhere.