https://placing.technology/more-media-archaeology-mapinfo-mapxpress-2-0-1996-and-mapinfo-pro-1996 I blogged about using Windows 95 GIS software (some very good screenshots of crunchy graphics included)
@ingrid I can give one answer (kind of) -- MapInfo used distances for scale, where the distance was supposed to represent "height above the earth that the viewer is looking down from". I'm not sure what maths is actually used to calculate that, or how it handles differing screen DPI/etc 🤷
