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I used that DOSSHELL method for a while until I got Quarterdeck Desqview set up - and from that point on, to me DOS was nothing more than a terminal interface t

by aa-jv 7mo ago

I used that DOSSHELL method for a while until I got Quarterdeck Desqview set up - and from that point on, to me DOS was nothing more than a terminal interface to my pizzabox. Sure would've been nice if the Desqview engineers and the GEM guys could've merged their efforts...

lproven 7mo ago
> Sure would've been nice if the Desqview engineers and the GEM guys could've merged their efforts... OMG yes. I thought this myself at the time. The thing is that they were rivals. QEMM386 bolted protect-mode memory-management on top of DOS. DESQview bolted multitasking on top of QEMM. DESQview/X bolted a Unix-like GUI on top of that. DR just sold multitasking OSes for the PC: Multiuser DOS for use with terminals, FlexOS with X/GEM for realtime stuff. Symantec bought Quarterdeck. Perhaps Novell should have bought it first.