13 Dec
2005
13 Dec
'05
3:42 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Stevens" <chenmel at earthlink.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Old MS-DOS & WIN Software
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:42:36 +0200
Wouter <cctech at retro.co.za> wrote:
I have boxed versions of Desqview/X 1.0 and 2.0 and they are fun to play
around with on 386/486 machines. The bad part of DV/X is there are less
native apps (can't think of any other then DV/X enabled DOS programs for
BBS's) for it then OS/2.
Windows 3.1 lives on with some hobbyists (me anyway) because of the Apps and
hardware that was made for it. IF there are few native apps then the OS goes
to obscurity very fast.
Hi all
It was also called Coherent, and OS/2. And DesqView (and in
particular DesqView/X, which has almost completely disappeared
from history) also made a good run for it.
Mind you if somebody came up with a better OS
when the 386's
came out, would we have windows today?
It's called "Linux". And yea, we still have Windoze... :-)
W