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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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