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Looking now at the corresponding Wikipedia page, I see that actually there have already been created a few clones, both for Windows and for Linux.

I have not used BRIEF for Windows, so I do not know if it was as good as BRIEF for MS-DOS. Unfortunately, most of the great MS-DOS programs had versions ported to Windows that were quite disappointing.

This allowed Microsoft to create competitive Windows products that grabbed the market from the former MS-DOS market leaders, like with Microsoft Office. Of course, Microsoft cheated in many cases, because its internal developers frequently used Windows OS interfaces that were not yet known to outsiders because they were planned for the next Windows release or interfaces that were undocumented and which remained undocumented, unless someone reverse engineered them.