Subj : Re: Thin client PC to run MS-DOS
To   : Lordwoodoo
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Nov 27 2025 10:01:31

-=> Lordwoodoo wrote to Nightfox <=-

 Lo> Maybe. I will check this out. This is interesting for me.  I have both
 Lo> installed in some hard drives. DESQView v.1.x version dont have a GUI,
 Lo> but version DESQView X 1.x and DESQView X 2.x have one. If I remember
 Lo> DESQView 1.xx have just a system menu wich remains hidden if not used.

Yep, two different beasts. DESQview was a DOS multitasker, DESQview X
was an Xwindows client that also multitasked DOS applications. I thought
it was a totally cool idea, but didn't have a market. If you had a *nix
box on your network, you could run X client apps like a web browser,
editor, or mail client on DV/X.

There were unix versions of Microsoft Word and 1-2-3 that ran in a unix
console, don't know if they had X versions back then. You could use DOS
desktops to run X apps from a big unix system, keep all your data on it,
back it up, etc - like a mainframe. Client/Server had already taken hold
by then, though.

 
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