alt Hacker NewsI used that DOSSHELL method for a while until I got Quarterdeck Desqview set up - and from that point on, to me DOS was nothing more than a terminal interface to my pizzabox.
Sure would've been nice if the Desqview engineers and the GEM guys could've merged their efforts...
> Sure would've been nice if the Desqview engineers and the GEM guys could've merged their efforts...
OMG yes. I thought this myself at the time.
The thing is that they were rivals.
QEMM386 bolted protect-mode memory-management on top of DOS. DESQview bolted multitasking on top of QEMM. DESQview/X bolted a Unix-like GUI on top of that.
DR just sold multitasking OSes for the PC: Multiuser DOS for use with terminals, FlexOS with X/GEM for realtime stuff.
Symantec bought Quarterdeck. Perhaps Novell should have bought it first.