Like many people in this thread, I used DESQview for BBSes and later DESQview/X, but there wasn’t much graphical that I could find for it. Eventually I moved to

Like many people in this thread, I used DESQview for BBSes and later DESQview/X, but there wasn’t much graphical that I could find for it. Eventually I moved to OS/2 because it was easier to program, but it still holds a fond place in my heart. I just wish I would’ve realized the real power of X back when I was on DESQview/X, not that it would’ve mattered with only one PC in the house. A decade later when I got to CMU for grad school I was talking to a professor when I saw he was using DESQview/X as his desktop OS…in 2004. I thought that was wild until I met a cluster of folks at IBM Research still running OS/2 in 2012 when my office got moved to Yorktown Heights. Such pleasant memories…but I think I’ll stick with modern desktop environments.