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	DESQview
		DESQview was developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems which released it in July 1985, four months before Microsoft introduced the first version of Windows.
		DESQview was widely thought to be the first program to bring multitasking and windowing capabilities to DOS, but in fact there was a predecessor, IBM's failed TopView, released in 1984, from which DESQview inherited the popup menu.
		DESQview was noteworthy in that it supported all common DOS compatible programs and achieved a degree of performance and stability that was remarkable, given the constraints of its host operating system.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/d/de/desqview.html (1352 words)

	DESQview - Definition, explanation
		DESQview was a text mode multitasking program developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems which enjoyed modest popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
		DESQview was released in July 1985, four months before Microsoft introduced the first version of Windows.
		DESQview was noteworthy in that it supported all common DOS-compatible programs and achieved a degree of performance and stability that was remarkable, given the constraints of its host operating system.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/d/de/desqview.php (1439 words)

	DESQview - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		DESQview was a text mode multitasking program developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems which enjoyed modest popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
		DESQview was released in July 1985, four months before Microsoft introduced the first version of Windows.
		DESQview was noteworthy in that it supported all common DOS-compatible programs and achieved a degree of performance and stability that was remarkable, given the constraints of its host operating system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DESQview (1452 words)

	Facts about desqview
		At the time, DESQview was the first program to bring multitasking and windowing capabilities to a DOS environment in which any exisisting DOS programs could be used.
		Under DESQview, DOS programs could be run concurrently in resizable, overlapping windows (something the first version of Windows could not do).
		In one arena, however, DESQview was a lasting success: many multiuser bulletin board systems were based on it, thanks to its modest hardware requirements, its robust multitasking.
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/desqview.html (456 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		If they were executed before DESQview is started, they would not be loaded in banked memory and they would have to care to switch to the correct memory bank before the call, like climbing to the right floor to call for the right salesman.
		Should it be loaded before DESQview is active to see which interrupt is used, DESQview will not switch memory during interrupts, and the calls it cannot control will be made to the wrong memory bank and crash the system.
		DESQview and Windows environments are similar enough in this respect to kill the two birds with one stone.
	netlab1.usu.edu /pub/pktdrvr/SRC/DESQVIEW.DOC (1557 words)

	DESQview/QEMM Frequently Asked Questions: READ BEFORE POSTING
		Because DESQview and DESQview/X are close cousins, many of the questions are common to both and are answered in section 2.
		Contains a section on the DESQview API that may serve as an introduction, but this is not a programmer's book.
		The default setting is 9:3, which means DESQview gives the foreground task 9 ``ticks'', or roughly half a second, of CPU time, then gives each of the background tasks 3 ticks.
	www.uni-giessen.de /faq/archiv/desqview-faq/msg00000.html (10909 words)

	Definition of DESQview
		DESQview did not provide a graphical user interface (GUI).
		The DESQview packages have been available for download on the Internet for a few years on at least one stable site (listed below) with no trace of complaint, however neither the host site CharterSoft nor Symantec's corporate counsel will clarify copyright status on direct request.
		Claims that the software is "public domain" are unsubstantiated and appear to be based solely on an editor statement at Slashdot.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/DESQview (1426 words)

	Article info : The Proof of the Pudding . . .
		DESQview was a multitasking environment that supported regular, off-the-shelf DOS applications, of which there were hundreds.
		The 386 processor introduced a number of hardware features that QEMM and DESQview together could exploit and manage, such as the ability to supply a virtual display that fooled applications into thinking that they were writing to the real display.
		All of us at Quarterdeck used DESQview 386 as it was meant to be used—in a variety of user models, for a variety of tasks, and in challenging environments where plenty of things were going on.
	www.stickyminds.com /se/S12030.asp (1366 words)

	DESQview - OneLook Dictionary Search
		We found 3 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word DESQview:
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		DESQview : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=DESQview (77 words)

	Enciclopedia - DESQview
		DESQview fue notable por su estabilidad, nivel de operación y la capacidad de ejecutar en modo de multitareas la mayoría de los programas de su época que eran compatibles con DOS.
		Muchos factores contribuyeron a que DESQview no fuera desarrollado a un potencial mas amplio y que terminara por no ser difundido a un mercado mas grande.
		La estocada final la dio Microsoft cuando lanzo al mercado la versión 3.0 de Windows, DESQview era mucho mas rápido, mas pequeño y mas estable que Windows, pero tenia una gran desventaja en comparación con Windows: Era mucho mas caro.
	www.enciclopedia.com /es/d/de/desqview_1.php (293 words)

	LE Manual Ch 3
		The DESQview environment offers three major features utilized by these tools: the ability to switch between applications, a standard way of dealing with windows and fields, and the ability to multitask.
		The DESQview menu is usually displayed in the upper right hand corner of the screen but at times the menu will be hidden.
		In various situations there will be a selection of fields presented from which the user must choose, or a field in which the user must enter text.
	www.cs.indiana.edu /classes/p442-sjoh/le_manual/cui.html (1987 words)

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		DESQview 386 includes an expanded memory manager, QEMM/386, which converts the extended memory on 80386 machines to expanded memory.
		DESQview uses expanded memory to perform multitasking; if expanded memory is not available but disk space is, DESQview can swap programs to a disk file, allowing new programs to take their place.
		DESQVIEW INSTALLATION We recommend that you install DESQview according to the instructions listed in "Chapter 1: Installation" of the DESQview Quarterdeck Version 2 manual.
	www.xywrite.com /ttg/appnotes/app187.txt (797 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		If you are running under DESQView, you control the amount of XMS RAM available to a window with the [Maximum Expanded Memory Size in K] option.
		Under DESQview no XMS, EXPANDED or EXTENDED memory is available unless you edited the PIF to tell DESQview to allot some.
		DESQview will provide no extended, expanded or XMS RAM to a program running under it unless you set the Maximum Expanded Memory Size in K on the second page of the CP (change program) screen.
	mindprod.com /utilities/need.txt (8630 words)

	DESQview/X Technical Perspective
		When DESQview performs a task switch to a DOS Extended application, it ensures that the real mode portion of the application is mapped into the conventional memory Application Area and that the protected mode portion is visible in extended memory.
		DESQview's ability to window an application and run it in the background is a function of the machine's processor and the type of application.
		DESQview API Applications are, by their very nature, well-behaved DOS applications as they use the DESQview API to perform display output.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/phrensy/pub/www/dvx/dvxtechp.htm (15649 words)

	DESQview.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		DESQview is the name of a project, which is dedicated to virtual teamwork on the Internet.
		That is, we work by a group of people, in which individual interests are subordinated to group unity and efficiency; coordinated effort, as of an athletic team, or as of a company.
		More information about DESQview can be found in its indivitual subproject or departmental web sites.
	www.desqview.com (71 words)

	DESQview specific setup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		DESQview specific setup CP can support DESQview, version 2.0 and higher.
		Some of the programs enclosed in CP package cannot be started from DESQview.
		You can specify whether the CP should always wait for the completion of a command's execution (it is highly recommended), or only while running package operations, such as user's menu or group execution, or never (this last option is not recommended since the CP will start all user's menu commands simultaneously).
	www.phystechsoft.com /ptshelp/294.html (208 words)

	[No title]
		Necessary Software: Necessary Software: * MS-DOS (V3.3 or higher) * DESQview 386 * PCBoard V14.5a * Disk caching software NOTE: If the amount of memory you will have available is a concern you may wish to look into using the VROOM overlay version of PCBoard which uses less memory.
		How to Run Up to Four Nodes With PCBoard and DESQview Page: 9 How to Run Up to Four Nodes With PCBoard and DESQview Page: 9 Uses own colors: Unless you have no objections to DESQview's odd color assignment set this to Y so you can see PCBoard in all its glory.
		How to Run Up to Four Nodes With PCBoard and DESQview Page: 15 How to Run Up to Four Nodes With PCBoard and DESQview Page: 15 CONCLUSION CONCLUSION __________ There are countless ways to set up a multitasking system (especially when placing it on a network).
	artofhacking.com /IET/COMM/PCB&DV.TXT (3160 words)

	LINKLER
		Desqview 386 v2.61 and QEMM 386 v7.02 - 001-17H-72414
		Desqview 386 v2.61 and QEMM 386 v7.02 - 001-32H-72414
		Desqview 386 v2.7 and QEMM 386 v7.5 - 103-22H-90808
	www.tef.marmara.edu.tr /makine/gurcan/page20.htm (796 words)

	November 01, 2001: Non-NB: DesqView [was: file size in NBWin]
		Frankly, my impression was that only in 9x had Windows finally achieved the kind of multitasking (preemptive I think is the term) that DV had been doing all along--i.e., the kind that really works.
		David Kronenfeld wrote that "MicroSoft missed some of the chief virtues of DesqView (and QEMM): totally clear and out front parameter values, which made fixing memory needs/limits, environment glitches, and other infelicities very easy and straightforward." This is true.
		What MS got right, though, is that very few computer users actually want to fool around with that sort of thing.
	www.hamline.edu /~wnk/notabene/2001/msg03064.html (280 words)

	File Library at Channel 1: Miscellaneous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		DesqView Net: Area tag management program that facilitates the placement of programs into the proper dirs.
		Very useful in preventing multiple programs which use the same modem from crashing the 1st, or from opening 2nd copies of database programs etc and for automating scripts.
		Allows DESQview window operations to be scheduled by time of day or time interval.
	www.filelibrary.com /Contents/DOS/95/4.html (459 words)

	Dr. Dobb's \| A Parallel Make With Desqview \| July 22, 2001
		Another problem with app_start() is that whenever it is called, any DESQview menus that are being displayed are removed from the screen as if you had escaped out of them.
		To access DESQview menus, you must first enter DESQview with "Exdev" via the menu that is put on the screen by dvmenu().
		You must have the DESQview API C Library to compile the program, although I have included a runnable version on this month's source code disk.
	www.ddj.com /184408232?pgno=3 (8106 words)

	Multinode Configuration
		You can run multiple nodes on one cpu with DOS multitaskers such as DESQview, Windows, or OS/2 or you can run one node per CPU and let the CPU's share the same data on a common hard disk via Local Area Network (LAN).
		Here is a table to estimate the maximum number of nodes you should run on any given machine under DESQview: CPU Nodes 386-16 1 386-25 2 386-33 3 386-40 4 486-25 5 486-33 8 486-50 10 Note: You can run more than the suggested number of nodes, but performance will decrease with each additional node.
		This number is the amount that DESQview will give this node if it can, or if not possible, as much as it can.
	www.synchro.net /docs/multnode_config.html (2428 words)

	Interrupts
		Note: Under DESQview versions prior to 2.50, an object handle is always a pointer to the object; for versions 2.50 and up, only task handles are always pointers--other handles may consist of a unique object number and offset into DESQview's common memory (see #0342)
		Format of DESQview system memory block header: Offset Size Description (Table 0352) 00h WORD segment of next header or 0000h 02h WORD segment of previous header or 0000h 04h WORD size of block in paragraphs, including header 06h BYTE availability flag (00h in use, 01h free)
		Bitfields for DESQview keyboard object bits: Bit(s) Description (Table 0369) 15 reserved, can't be set 14 unused 13 reserved, can't be set 12-6 unused 5 (DV 2.2+) exclusive input 4 filter all keys (used with handler established by SETESC).
	hdebruijn.soo.dto.tudelft.nl /newpage/interupt/out-1200.htm (10862 words)

	MNODE15C - Running Wildcat under Desqview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Both systems ended up being multi-node (more than one modem) and were run under Desqview, a multitasking shell from Quarterdeck Office Systems that allowed you to run more than one DOS program at a time.
		I ended up becoming very proficient at configuring multiple node Wildcat BBS's under Desqview and wrote one of the main technical guidance documents for Sysops to use as a template to kick start their BBS's into multiple node operation.
		The instuctions are still perfectly valid if for some crazy reason you wanted to run a Wildcat v4 BBS under DESQview.
	www.caspeed.com /mnode.html (367 words)

	How get Turbo Vision and DESQView to work together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This pointer is usually points to video memory, but there are some application where you will have to change this location.
		In this case, you can not have more than one TV application running on a DESQView session, because TV writes directly to the screen.
		Therefore, the workaround is to get a pointer from DESQView for the virtual screen and set TScreen::screenBuffer to that pointer.
	bdn.borland.com /article/18937 (196 words)

	Slashdot \| DesqView/X: Night of the Living Dead Codebases
		The size of each Desqview DOS session was limited to the amount of sub-640k RAM that was free when you started DV, so optimization was really important.
		However, he has been able to share with me some of the internals of DESQview and DESQview/X. I won't get into much of them, but to all the people who are hoping to get some useful code they can copy and paste into their own programs by signing the petition, you may be disappointed.
		Desqview is nice for multitasking by chrysalis (Score:2) Monday January 28, @12:08PM
	slashdot.org /articles/02/01/27/1950244.shtml (3940 words)

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