On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Ralf A. Quint <free...@gmx.net> wrote: > At 07:39 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote: >>Please recall that DesqView, DesqViewX, GEM, and Windows through 9.X >>were precisely GUIs strapped onto a DOS environment. > > Just for the record, DesqView is not a GUI, but a text mode > multi-tasking/task-switching add-on for DOS and basically an > extension to Quarterdesk's QEMM memory manager.
DesqView/X was a GUI, but point taken. They were all shells on top of DOS. (I ran DesqView, back in the day. It worked surprisingly well. I recall one BBS sysop running four instances of a Wildcat BBS on a 25mhz AT under DV. He could have 4 nodes connected to four modems and operating simultaneously on on machine. > And the name GUI means "Graphical User Interface". Basically handling > common tasks by more visual means rather than having to use/type > various and possibly long command line instructions. Yes, but I don't see why such a thing shouldn't exist for DOS. GUIs took over the world for a reason. > What people nowadays seem to expect that they get all the new fluff > of newer developments in operating systems instead of sticking with > the original meaning of the term as far as the use of "GUI" in > relation to (Free)DOS goes... Well, not if they are trying to use DOS, they don't. (If they do, they get disabused of the notion very quickly.) > Ralf ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
