Yes, QuarterDeck was the manufacturer of DeskView. I have the original version.
Man, those were the days! :)
Cary R. Wagner
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Subject: RE: [OT] History of the mouse
Author: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12/23/99 7:57 PM
> The original software was developed 1983ish and was called Deskview under
> one
> of it's incarnations. Deskview was licensed to a number of other
> companies
> for "tweaking" improvements, and resold... I used to own (still do, if I
> could
> find the disk) a copy of Deskview by Indian Head Software, but I'm pretty
> sure
> that was a tweaked version. I >think< Deskview was owned at one time by
> Symantec.
>
> Windows Version 1.0 was nearly identical in performance and abilities with
> Deskview
> ie., it was pretty primitive. It did allow for multitasking for the first
> time
> on an x86 architecture, though. Windows 2.0 was superior to Deskview so
> clearly
> that Deskview faded from the picture, and was all but gone by 1989. In
> return,
> of course, Windows 2.0 was supplanted in 1990 by Windows 3.0, a much more
> usable
> (no snickering) interface and system. The rest everyone knows, I'm sure.
This isn't the same as QuarterDeck's DesqView, is it? I used it long before
Windows 3.0 came out, multi-tasking DOS apps. Worked great on a 386-25.
-- Juha
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