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It was mainstream long before that. It was in common use with the Digital Research GEM desktop in the mid '80s (which used a .app suffix for applications), but
by rleigh 5y ago
It was mainstream long before that.
It was in common use with the Digital Research GEM desktop in the mid '80s (which used a .app suffix for applications), but was not particularly unique to GEM.
- CharlesW 5y agoFor the file extension. I did a quick search and all of the GEM ads and articles I could find call them "applications", "software applications", and even "executables".