The Norton Commander 3.0 Released in 1989 by Symantec For DOS Norton Commander is a MS-DOS based file shell that was widely popular due to it's two column design. You could easily copy and move files between one folder or another, execute DOS commands and more. It competed against many other file managers including Gazelle Q-DOS and Xtree This version includes MCI mail, and an integrated tool for transferring files between computers. Archive includes two 5.25" 360k floppy disk images and one 3.5" 720k floppy disk image.