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DESQview (DV) is a text mode multitasking operating environment developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems which enjoyed modest popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Running on top of DOS, it allows users to run multiple programs concurrently in multiple windows.
multitasking
desqview
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- "Can Visicorp come back?", InfoWorld, 2 July 1984, "DesQ... began shipping in April" .
- "In Depth – Women, technology and power", Computerworld, 28 March 1988, https://books.google.com/books?id=JRgDwCkMX_cC&pg=PT64, "By May 1984, Desq finally went out the door" .
- TopView, IBM, 1985-02-19, http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS285-071/
- DESQview instant reference (2.3 ed.). SYBEX. 1991. pp. 2, 30–34, 67–101. ISBN 0-89588-809-2.
- "Desqview/X [sic] transforms Windows into X Windows [sic]", InfoWorld, 6 April 1992, https://books.google.com/books?id=6z0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15
- "Novell announces NetWare Access Server, T-1 Bridge", InfoWorld: p. 13, 6 March 1989, https://books.google.com/books?id=GzoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT12
- "Updated NetWare Server Improves Remote Access", InfoWorld: p. 43, 27 May 1991, https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT42
- "Five Window Managers for the IBM PC", BYTE 9 (9 Guide to the IBM PC): 70, September 1984, https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1984-09/1984_09_BYTE_09-09_Guide_to_the_IBM_PCs#page/n71/mode/2up
- "The BYTE Awards". BYTE: 327. January 1989. https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1989-01/1989_01_BYTE_14-01_PC_Communications_and_Annual_Awards_and_Digitizing_Tablets#page/n371/mode/2up.
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