Thus spake Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 07:46:51AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:41:30AM -0800, Day Brown wrote: > > > [...] DR-DOS, since at > > > least 5, have had taskswitching. > > > > Well, sort of. AFAICR, it was a bleeding edge feature, and it felt like > > one. You just didn't really expect it to work like we expect Linux to > > work. After all, it was just a DOS. This is not to start a flamewar, > > but rather to inform the reader the real meaning of the words sometimes > > isn't the obvious one. > > Quarterdeck brought out a task-switching system to run on ordinary DOS; ISTR > it got a glowing review in Electronics & Wireless World - they rated it > better than the windoze of the time - but it was text-based rather than full > pretty pictures GUI, and didn't have M$'s backing, so it sunk without trace. > Unfortunately I never got a chance to try it.
Yes - Desqview/QEMM wasn't it? I actually wrote an application to run under DV and had the developer's SDK. It was as I recall pretty good, although text only as you suggest. Funnily enough I moved house last month and the DV manuals were among the stuff that didn't make it to the new one. Quarterdeck also announced, maybe even released Desqview-X c1994/5 (?) which IIRC was an implementation of (part of?) the X protocol on (gulp) DOS. I had a product brief but don't recall ever seeing the product. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
