Arnold Troeger wrote on Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 07:33:22PM +0700 :
> 
> The multitasking software you're thinking of is DesqView from Quarterdeck.
> Quarterdeck also developed DesqView/X which was a port of X11R4 to dos.
> Both worked and pretty well at that, all things considered.  Didn't Symantec
> buy QuarterDeck a few years back?  I used DesqView/X until I was able to get
> X11 working in Linux (about '93).

I actually contacted Symantec last year to ask about releasing the API
for DV and their answer was more along the lines of "you've got to be
kidding."  Oh well, it doesn't hurt to ask.

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