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> I don't think it could do os/2 "Presentation Manager" for instance. There was a Presentation Manager subsystem for NT that could run 16-bit OS/2 graphical pr

by rlkf 3y ago

> I don't think it could do os/2 "Presentation Manager" for instance. There was a Presentation Manager subsystem for NT that could run 16-bit OS/2 graphical programs, but it was about as hard to come by as buying a single LTSC license is today.

stuaxo 3y ago
Would love to see that demonstrated, maybe it will be on virtuallyfun.com one day.
kristopolous 3y ago
That's absurd. It's almost as silly as Quarterdeck's DESQview/X product that ran win-16 binaries. I ran it for laughs once in 2001, it worked. Motif, X, remote X, and 16 bit Windows --- it's everything you never wanted. http://toastytech.com/guis/dvx.html http://toastytech.com/guis/dvx.html of course has a gallery. Quarterdeck - thanks for the memories, and also, the memories The lesson of DESQ is to design software to run on the computers of tomorrow and don't worry so much about the computers of today. That sounds stupid to me as well but neither of us have yachts or private jets so what do we know. It's about colonizing the future. I wouldn't be surprised if FreeDOS could spin this up.
- stuaxo 3y ago
  Virtuallyfun has a go at running DesqView/X... and now I'm shocked to see it was all the way back in 2011 ! https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/03/27/desqviewx/ https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/03/27/desqviewx/ There's also a long running ticket in dosemu2 around some issues with DesqView/X https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2/issues/606 https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2/issues/606 In some more years it will probably be working fine there.
  - LeFantome 3y ago
    2011? Try 1992! DesqView/X was graphically multi-tasking DOS programs and running X applications the year after Linux was released. This was the Windows 3.1 era ( no cooperative multitasking ) and before OS/2 2.0 was out. Amazing. Like everything else at the time though, it could not run Windows applications ( Microsoft Office ) and so it was doomed.

by rlkf 3y ago

stuaxo 3y ago

Would love to see that demonstrated, maybe it will be on virtuallyfun.com one day.

kristopolous 3y ago

That's absurd. It's almost as silly as Quarterdeck's DESQview/X product that ran win-16 binaries. I ran it for laughs once in 2001, it worked. Motif, X, remote X, and 16 bit Windows --- it's everything you never wanted. http://toastytech.com/guis/dvx.html http://toastytech.com/guis/dvx.html of course has a gallery. Quarterdeck - thanks for the memories, and also, the memories The lesson of DESQ is to design software to run on the computers of tomorrow and don't worry so much about the computers of today. That sounds stupid to me as well but neither of us have yachts or private jets so what do we know. It's about colonizing the future. I wouldn't be surprised if FreeDOS could spin this up.

stuaxo 3y ago
Virtuallyfun has a go at running DesqView/X... and now I'm shocked to see it was all the way back in 2011 ! https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/03/27/desqviewx/ https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/03/27/desqviewx/ There's also a long running ticket in dosemu2 around some issues with DesqView/X https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2/issues/606 https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2/issues/606 In some more years it will probably be working fine there.
- LeFantome 3y ago
  2011? Try 1992! DesqView/X was graphically multi-tasking DOS programs and running X applications the year after Linux was released. This was the Windows 3.1 era ( no cooperative multitasking ) and before OS/2 2.0 was out. Amazing. Like everything else at the time though, it could not run Windows applications ( Microsoft Office ) and so it was doomed.