Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

[Liam Proven]

On 12/12/05, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> One wonders what the OS landscape would have looked like had MS simply
> bundled a 32-bit flat-mode DPMI server with MS-DOS when the 386 came out.
> Would anyone really have preferred developing for the segmented 16-bit
> model?

It kinda nearly happened with DesqView and DesqView/X. 32-bit memory
under DOS, solid multitasking with memory protection, virtual memory,
and a standard X.11-based GUI. It just came along too late - after
Windows 3.0, in other words.

I'd love to know how the computing world would have turned out if DV/X
had been a big hit. It would have bought the worlds of DOS and Unix
much closer together. It might have been a fertile combination.
Imagine if all the GNU stuff had got ported to DV/X, for example.


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