As a fan of midnightcommander on linux, I did some research attempting to confirm that it was a clone or copy of Norton Commander. I found on some old forgotten ftp sites of DOS stuff a similar program called "dc", presumably for "disk commander", that was a very trimmed down and fast version of the same concept. I think dc looked more like mc in some of it's keystroke mappings. I have no idea if dc copied mc or vice versa, however.

I believe dc was given away in a floppy disk inserted in a computer shopper magazine sometime in the early 90s.

I built a floppy based linux to emulate the use of a parallel port "laplink" to shift files -- you stick the disk in each computer, and mc pops up with the files on the remote computer on the left and the local files on the right, and you can copy them back and forth.

I would not might having mc on my android phone. Maybe I will try to port it.