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From: berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren)
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Subject: Re: Desqview/X
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Date: 28 Dec 90 09:02:12 GMT
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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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