[pjmlp]

I was using Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5 and Borland C++ 3.1 instead.

Also by the time Windows 3.1 got out MS-DOS was already at version MS-DOS 5.0 and DR-DOS at version 6.0.

During the lifetime of MS-DOS, many of us were happily coding on Clipper, Dbase, Turbo Pascal, Turbo Basic, Quick Pascal, TMT Pascal, FoxPro, NASM, TASM, Turbo C, Turbo C++, Modula-2....

There was plenty of choice.

[discreteevent]

Not to be pedantic but I know there was a lot of choice for DOS but I was referring to Windows programming specifically which is what I started out on. I was under the impression that C was the main way to do this but I didn't even have access to the internet then, so I suppose I should say that it seemed to be the main way to do Windows programming in my local area and in my local computer bookshop!