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From: "John A. Maier" <johnam AT beta DOT datastorm DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Multitasking in DOS (fwd)
Date: 2 Jul 1996 16:32:54 GMT
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In article 31D400AD DOT 446B9B3D AT eng DOT umd DOT edu,
	John Sabean <docmani AT eng DOT umd DOT edu> said:
>
>Matt W. Spencer wrote:
>> 
>> 
>Quaterdeck did it before Win3.1.  Anyone remember Desqview? There was an API
>for it. You could spawn new processes and everything....
>
>I'm not sure how well it would work with DJGPP though. The version I have is
>quite old (about 6 years old....)
>

Quarterdeck also cam out with Desqview/X (laster version 2.1).  There is even a SDK on most of the DJGPP archives for it.  It was a cake and eat it too thing with a few exceptions.

I able to port a number of UNIX X programs over with little trouble.  The only thing missing was a good UNIX shell and longfilenames.  I love it.

To add insult to injury for Microsoft, it could run MS-Windows in and X window and server it to a remote X term! (has nothing to do with programming, but I thought it was neat)

There is no fork (unfortunatly) but equivelents.

jam
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