My question was aimed at much earlier pre-DOS times, wondering if there was resistance to simple non multitasking OSs like DOS vs booting straight into the appl

My question was aimed at much earlier pre-DOS times, wondering if there was resistance to simple non multitasking OSs like DOS vs booting straight into the application. I was around and remember what you are describing. Edit: for example, when I was in elementary school in the early 90s we had a lab of already antique Apple IIs, with no permanent storage or OS. We would just boot directly into programs on a floppy. Some of the programs themselves had simple features to save and open files.