Open-Source DesqView/X

[Dave Lloyd]

If you would like to see DesqView/X open-sourced, go to my site and sign
my petition:

http://www.freemm.org/DesqView%20X

Thanks!

- D

[Sven Utcke]

Dave Lloyd <da...@freemm.org> writes:

> If you would like to see DesqView/X open-sourced,

I would so, very much!

> go to my site and sign my petition:
>
> http://www.freemm.org/DesqView%20X

Hmm. I couldn't find any petition. I could find a filed to "sign",
but no text which in any way resembled any sort of petition was in
sight anywhere. So where is the text I'm supposed to sign?

Sven
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[DOSIUS]

In article <3A26E384...@freemm.org>,
Dave Lloyd <da...@freemm.org> wrote:
> If you would like to see DesqView/X open-sourced, go to my site and

sign
> my petition:
>
> http://www.freemm.org/DesqView%20X
>

> Thanks!
>
> - D
>
If all it is is an X system, why not save the trouble of hassling a
company? It might be better to try to start from XFree86 current
sources and do a new port in Delorie C (djgpp). The resulting X Window
program would be superior to a five-year-old (or more) unsupported
commercial app because

1 The source has always been open; no copyright issues.
2 The open source version is supported by the open source community
already. There is no support for the commercial version anymore.
3 It could be included in a GNU/DOS package more easily, knowing that
as open-source it was also free (some open source programs are not
free).

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Before you buy.

[Sven Utcke]

DOSIUS <st...@dosius.zzn.com> writes:

> In article <3A26E384...@freemm.org>,
> Dave Lloyd <da...@freemm.org> wrote:
> > If you would like to see DesqView/X open-sourced, go to my site and sign
> > my petition:
> >
> > http://www.freemm.org/DesqView%20X

> If all it is is an X system, why not save the trouble of hassling a
> company?

Because it's much more. It is a complete multitasking environment,
much superior to windows in its time (although possibly not any more),
providing multitasking to computers as lowly as a mere 8088 (some
older versions) and X for at least 80286 (and reportedly even 8088 ---
again, only some older versions). If nothing else, it is an important
technological landmark, and I would actually buy it just for that, if
I could find somebody willing to sell...

[DOSIUS]

In article <vd0hf4k...@kogs45.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,

Of course, I'm looking for a *free and open-source* X Window port for
DOS. That's why I responded ._.,

[a...@mail1.bet1.puv.fi]

Sven Utcke <ut...@tu-harburg.de> wrote:
>
> DOSIUS <st...@dosius.zzn.com> writes:
> > >
> > > http://www.freemm.org/DesqView%20X
>
> > If all it is is an X system, why not save the trouble of hassling a
> > company?
>
> Because it's much more. It is a complete multitasking environment,
> much superior to windows in its time (although possibly not any more),
> providing multitasking to computers as lowly as a mere 8088 (some
> older versions) and X for at least 80286 (and reportedly even 8088 ---
> again, only some older versions). If nothing else, it is an important
> technological landmark, and I would actually buy it just for that, if
> I could find somebody willing to sell...

Anyone interested in DESQview or DESQview/X may wish to
visit the newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.desqview

The latest URL, recently posted to the NG:
http://www.chsoft.com/dv.html

QEMM97 (the last version of QEMM) can be found at:
ftp://copper.cauldron.org