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From: edm@hpfcmdd.hp.com (Ed Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Is DESQview/X released yet ?
Message-ID: <84380006@hpfcmdd.hp.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 20:10:16 GMT
References: <1991Mar16.130925.3902@ericsson.se>
Organization: HP Mechanical Design Division
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>Please summarise. This *is* a very interesting program.

I have a 44-page document titled, "DESQview/X - A Technical Perspective," that
I obtained from Quarterdeck Office Systems.  I have never seen such
comprehensive documentation of a product before it is released.  So, for a
little typing exercise during lunch, here is some stuff from the front of the
document.

DESQview/X:
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o  Is an extension to Quarterdeck's popular multitasking DOS environment.
o  Provides users with a consistent growth path for DOS via DESQview and
   DESQview 386 to DESQview/X.
o  Allows DOS machines to participate in industry standard, multivendor, multi-
   operating system, distributed processing.
o  Gives Unix X Window users access to many off-the-shelf DOS software
   packages.
o  Gives DOS users access to Unix X Window Clients.
o  Gives DOS users access to more powerful DOS programs that are not capable of
   being run on their machine.
o  Provides developers with an "open", graphical user interface.
o  Provides X Client developers and manufacturers access to the huge installed
   base of DOS machines.

Specifically, it:
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o  Provides a graphical interface.
o  Gives users a choice of interfaces (window managers) - the OSF/Motif
   manager, an Open Look style or DESQview's own DWM are prime examples.
o  Allows users to run many off-the-shelf DOS applications in graphic windows.
o  May run either as a stand-alone or a networked system.
o  Allows local users to display and use Unix graphical applications (X
   Clients) that are running on another machine on a network.
o  Allows local users to display and use many off-the-shelf DOS applications
   that are running on another machine on a network.
o  Allows local users to display and use DOS Clients written for X (graphical
   applications) that are running on another machine on a network.
o  Allows X Window Unix users to display and use many off-the-shelf DOS
   applications that are running on another DOS machine on a network.
o  Provides developers a platform to port X Clients from Unix to DOS.
o  Allows developers to create X Clients in a DOS environment for later porting
   to other operating systems using the X Window System.
o  Gives developers a choice of application styles - Motif, Open Look and
   others - or the freedom to design their own.