I used them all. They all lost to windows because of "Developers Developers Developers". i.e. no one really wrote apps for them (besides AOL for Geoworks). D

I used them all. They all lost to windows because of "Developers Developers Developers". i.e. no one really wrote apps for them (besides AOL for Geoworks). Desqview was neat it allowed you to multitask dos apps, but dos 5 basically included same functionality in a more restricted forms (basically how MSFT did to all of Quarterdeck's stuff). Desqview/X was nice if you were in an unix environment, but vast majority of users were not. GEM was along the same lines as geoworks, but recall it being less usefull.