Mail Archives: djgpp/2011/09/04/15:52:15
None taken. I'm just having a good time revisiting some of the old stuff that I put on the shelf 20 years ago. Back then, I bought DV/X and found it pretty useless and incomplete. My real interest is learning how to use DJGPP. Even though I have stepped back into what is long gone, it's a learning experience. My questions could not be that boring... It is amazing to look back and see how things have materialized. In 1990-9? I remember going to Dallas, Tx for a "Net World" or something like that... convention at the new Dallas convention center. This was the era of the desktop wars. The entire convention was about which desktop would become the standard. OpenLoook or Motif was the center of attention. CISC Vs. RISC or Alpha was anther battle. I think Steve Jobs NEXT was one of the big headliners at the convention then. Quarter Deck was a power house then, DV/X was being pushed as the answer to cross platform computing. I don't think I have ever been able to configure it as completely
as we saw it at the convention. Yea, I got suckered into it!
At this point I'm just trying to get some of my investment back before I burn it in the fireplace. Got to use it up you know...
On Sep 1, 3:08pm, John Wright wrote:
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> Several months ago I asked the question if anyone knows of a source for the
> Quarter Deck Xm tool kit. I guess only those who bought it have the source
> libraries, otherwise it has all gone to the dump. It looks like Xlib and Xaw
> are the outer limits for QDLIB200. Can anyone comment further on this? Maybe
> there is nothing else to comment on. Oh well! It would be nice to have Xt or
> Xm to try out under DVX. There is no look or feel to Xaw widgets.
Please don't take this the wrong way, it's not a criticism. But this
software is "old"! ;-) I was (out of boredom?) reading the mailing
list archive of djgpp-announce yesterday. It seems DV/X stuff for
DJGPP dates back to 1992 or such. Heh. And yeah, Quarterdeck (and thus
Desqview) is presumably long gone, eaten up by Symantec, who buried
it. I'm pretty sure DJ doesn't remember any of that old stuff anyways.
Sad that old software and history seem to disappear (even websites
without warning), as it makes things much harder to preserve and
use. :-/
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