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Article #4051Re: Desqview/X
From: Eric Berggren
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 1990 09:02
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 1990 09:02
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jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>I'm not sure where to put this posting, in Desqview, in X, or MSDOS
>programmer. Since I read this board all the time, I'm posting it here.
>Has anyone seen that little 20+ page pamphlet by Quarterdeck in the
>lastest Dr. Dobbs? It seems that the X-windowing Desqview is gonna
>be REAL nice....it looked VERY impressive. Has anyone heard anything
>about this thing? Right now it's still vaporware, but it look s quite
>promising.
It's much farther than vaporware. It's scheduled to be released early
next year. Only things I know so far are that :
1) TCP/IP and Novell Netware support
2) Runs X11r3 (don't quote me on this!)
3) Allows X applications to be run locally (under MS-DOS)
4) EGA+ required
5) lotsa memory required
I have no idea how much this beast is going to cost; I'm not even going
to worry about it for a while until at least the second release.
( version 1.x of ANYTHING is always buggy; yes it is written down somehwrere!)
Any other new info. would be appreciated...
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