Talk:DESQview
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Conflicting Release Dates for IBM TopView This says 1984 and the TopView article says 1985. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.216.42.197 (talk) 08:52, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
moved here from article -- Viajero 23:07, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Actually, I believe DesqView/X WAS formally released. I "obtained" a copy of it and ran it several years ago, and vividly remember seeing advertisements for it in numerous PC magazines. -- 157.246.2.63
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- I remember seeing ads too, but didn't know that it ever made into shrinkwrap -- thought it remained vaporware. Are you sure it was a official release you got? -- Viajero 23:09, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
It made it out. I'm being bold. Here's the results of a Google search:
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- Good work! -- Viajero 11:07, 1 May 2004 (UTC)
Someone needs to merge this and DESQView. ElBenevolente 23:06, 24 May 2004 (UTC)
- Nevermind. I merged them. It might have too much information now, some liberal deletions may be in order. ElBenevolente 23:21, 24 May 2004 (UTC)
I'm highly dubious about the "public domain" claim. Unless it can be substantiated, the claim should be removed from the article text. Neither the Slashdot article nor a related FreeDOS posting substantiate the claim, though they echo it.
- http://www.darklogic.org/freedos/news/news.cgi?q=f&a=html.archive/1107.html
- http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/27/1950244.shtml
The FreeDOS News post says that the DESQview/X PD release was not valid, no mention of DESQview itself.
I've contacted Charterhouse and Symanted offline.
Kmself Fri Dec 24 23:45:34 UTC 2004
OK. I've contacted both Symantec's corporate counsel and CharterSoft. Chartersoft failed to respond, and while Symantec's counsel was engaging, he was nonresponsive on the point of public domain. ---
I noticed this page linked from Operating Systems. I didn't want to edit it as it is huge, but I would seriously debate that DESQView or DV/X do not qualify as an operating system, as they ran under DOS.
