DesqView/X: Night of the Living Dead Codebases

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 27, 2002 @11:48AM from the dreams-of-shells-past dept.

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!"

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Lucky Pete... by Gingko · 2002-01-27 12:41 · Score: 1, Redundant

"It can load X and rexec X apps with 16mb RAM for Pete sakes!"

Great, now all I need to do is change my name by deed poll... software usability at its best :)

Henry

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Re:DesqView was really cool. by legis · 2002-01-27 16:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

> QMM was needed with DesqView because it required a lot of resources. Actually it is QEMM. You also need it because QEMM have special hooks for DESQview which other memory managers don't.