DesqView/X: Night of the Living Dead Codebases

Pazuzues writes "I found something that you could say peaked my interest. It seems Symantec (purchasers of former company Quarterdeck) has release DeskView/X into public domain and can be downloaded now. DesqView/X was a GUI and OS extender that installed into DOS very much like MS Windows does. This little GUI can run X-Windows and MS Windows 3.x software and can even gateway serve MS Windows applications to remote X terminals. It was way ahead of its time and is a pretty decent toy to play with if you have a old 486 laying around. Anyways there is a petition being started that is petitioning Symantec to release the source code as OpenSource. I think this is a really good idea and could possiably help alot of other existing projects like WINE for example. It can load X and rexec X apps with 16mb RAM for Pete sakes!"

Comments

Where can I find DOS?

[MiTEG]

I have an old 486 lying around, but I don't have any DOS install disks lying around. Anyone where I could find them? This sounds like it would be cool to try out. Unless maybe the original win95 install disks allow you to install DOS only?

Re:A new low

[rtaylor]

Methings U cumplane to mush. I deffently thinc that.

Re:MOD PARENT DOWN: OBSCENITY

[dhogaza]

I didn't call him a clueless idiot. I said *he* shouldn't assume the person posting this is a clueless idiot.

Can't you ead renglish?

Re:A new low

[jeffehobbs]

amen, brother -- what the fuck do slashdot editors *do*, anyway?

~jeff

Re:A new low

[1010011010]

Which "English" should we be using, oh great arbitrator of language?

Any english would do. I don't think that news article would be considered well written by any english speaker from any century.

"Peaked"
"Pete sake"

Fonicks. Good when you're in elementary school, but not meant to eb the end of one's education.

Re:A new low

[dublin]

I'll get modded down for this, but xah is absolutely right here. Slashdot, which has always walked the ragged edge of illiteracy, has lately become an absolute crapfest of linguistic carelessness and ignorance.

Don't we care about the quality of what we're saying? If we don't, we shouldn't post at all. Perhaps this the the linguistic spawn of the grunge movement - the textual equivalent of the filthy jeans, stringy unwashed hair, odoriforous clothing, and replusive tatoos and piercings that were so common when jobs were plentiful, but thankfully seem to be much scarcer these days.

It would be nice to be able to filter posts that commit Englicide, something broader in scope than simply blocking Jon Katz. ;-) As I think about it, I realize I may only be half joking: If there can be a lameness filter for submissions, surely there can be one of a different type for viewing, one that will help demoronize Slashdot by automatically modding down posts that confuse "than" and "then", use "alot", botch "there/their", etc. The real question is whether or not there would be more than a handful of posts left after such an filter was loosed...