As someone who ran a BBS for an extended period of time, DESQview (and obviously QEMM) was an essential part of daily life. It allowed for a lot of things that

As someone who ran a BBS for an extended period of time, DESQview (and obviously QEMM) was an essential part of daily life. It allowed for a lot of things that you'd take for granted today-- like logging into an additional local-only node in the background to reply to messages, or doing file management while you had users online. Hell, even load up some less-intensive games in the foreground and carefully set up DV's preemptive levels to minimize the slowdown to the BBS. We started with QuickBBS but migrated to RemoteAccess later when QBBS went through a major stall and never recovered. As far as I understand, QuickBBS suffered from a major problem with leadership/ownership-- I don't remember specifics but I do remember that there was maybe one or two releases after that got cleared up but QBBS had already died off by that point. Since RemoteAccess was nearly 1:1 compatible and still getting upgraded, the decision was pretty obvious.