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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by kristopolous on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:31PM (#35633562)
That's absurd. It's almost as silly as Quarterdeck's DESQview/X product that ran win-16 binaries. I ran it for laughs once in 2001, it worked. Motif, X, remote X, and 16 bit Windows --- it's everything you never wanted. http://toastytech.com/guis/dvx.html of course has a gallery. Quarterdeck - thanks for the memories, and also, the memories

The lesson of DESQ is to design software to run on the computers of tomorrow and don't worry so much about the computers of today. That sounds stupid to me as well but neither of us have yachts or private jets so what do we know. It's about colonizing the future.

I wouldn't be surprised if FreeDOS could spin this up.

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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by stuaxo on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:56PM (#35634342)
Virtuallyfun has a go at running DesqView/X... and now I'm shocked to see it was all the way back in 2011 !

https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/03/27/desqviewx/

There's also a long running ticket in dosemu2 around some issues with DesqView/X https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2/issues/606

In some more years it will probably be working fine there.

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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by LeFantome on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:25AM (#35636391)
2011? Try 1992!

DesqView/X was graphically multi-tasking DOS programs and running X applications the year after Linux was released. This was the Windows 3.1 era ( no cooperative multitasking ) and before OS/2 2.0 was out. Amazing.

Like everything else at the time though, it could not run Windows applications ( Microsoft Office ) and so it was doomed.

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