DESQview (DV) is a text mode multitasking operating environment developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems which enjoyed modest popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Running on top of DOS, it allows users to run multiple programs concurrently in multiple windows.

DESQView, from Quarterdeck, was a DOS application multi-tasker and in later versions functioned as an X client for applications on remote UNIX systems. It competed against IBM Topview. The original DESQ was just a task switcher, but subsequent versions offered preemptive multitasking of well behaved DOS programs on real-mode 8088 PCs.

2021年11月30日 · DESQview/X is the easiest X11 based system I've ever installed. Seamless, fast, almost impossible to mess up installation process. It also ranks as the easiest X Windows based system to learn that I've ever used.

2024年7月23日 · While base installation disks of DESQView/X 2.x are available online in many places, DESQView/X came with many other goodies that added susbstantial functionality. This archive also includes DESQView 2.8 related stuff (the text-mode interface).

DESQview/X is an X-windowing system for DOS, built on top of Quarterdeck's text based DESQview multitasking system. This X-windowing system is X11R5 compatible and can operate on a network to run X applications on remote DESQView/X or Unix systems.

2024年6月8日 · DESQview is a program that extends DOS (either PC-DOS,MS-DOS or DR DOS) into a fully pre-emptive multitasking system. Contrary to popular belief, DESQview can perform multitasking on all classes of processor - 8088, 8086 (PC-XT), 286 (PC-AT), 386 and 486.

2011年3月27日 · Desqview X really is different in that it not only incorporates the desqview multitasking, but it also supports the X11 protocol found in the UNIX world. Sounds cool right? A friend wanted to run it, so he actually dug out a web page, chsoft.com with all the bits.

DESQview is a text based multitasking environment running on top of MS-DOS compatible systems. It can ran even on 286 machines however DESQview 386 requires (like the name suggests) both 386 or higher CPU and QEMM 386 (Quarterdeck Memory Manager). While DESQview is a text based environment it still can run applications that uses graphic modes.

DESQview is a character-based environment, but can also run graphics applications. Features include windowing and program swapping as well a keyboard macro program, a help system, a DOS Services utility and easy-to- use keyboard or mouse control. DESQview 386

2021年12月8日 · What is DESQview/X? Many people, in the current day and age, may have never even heard of this system from the mid-1990s. Its predecessor, DESQview (without the “/X”) which was first released in 1985, was a multi-tasking, windowing system for DOS.