> > BA> DesqView/X certainly didn't run on 286 (IMO), since it relied heavily on > > BA> QEMM, memory manager that worked in 386 pmode. Plus it needed 8 MB to > > BA> run (or run decently), if memory serves correctly. > > > > I remember I ran DesqView (not sure if it was /X) on my AT some years ago. > > I'll see if I can dig up the disks, and then see if I can decompile some > > of the code :-). > > DesqView != DesqView/X. First one was textmode task switcher Nah, it could do graphics programs as well. Even on a Hercules card, which was quite cute... > (with > similar capabilities windoze used to have back in those days except that > it was faster) And it did true Multitasking. Remember? Windows until quite recently didn't actually do multitasking. You would start some job, play solitaire for a while, went back to your first job --- only to find that it hadn't progressed at all! With DESQview you could really do something while the computer was silent slaving away at something else... > and the other one was monstronous (for those days) > graphical beast which took more memory than windoze itself in order to > run as expected. I dubt you ran DV/X on AT .. I have seen it installed on somebody's else AT, and the desqview part ran well enough. About the X-part, I couldn't say --- no one at that time actually had any connection you would have been able to run X across... See my other mail for the basic possibility of running DESQview/X on an 80286 with 2MB RAM, 5MB disc-space and EGA Sven -- _ _ Lehrstuhl fuer Mustererkennung und Bildverarbeitung | |_ __ | |__ Sven Utcke | | ' \| '_ \ phone: +49 761 203 8274 Am Flughafen 17 |_|_|_|_|_.__/ fax : +49 761 203 8262 79110 Freiburg i. Brsg. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~utcke
