What was the Windows 3.0/1 graphical alternative that also ran on DOS?

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe GeOS/Geoworks?

  winworldpc.com/product/geos/geoworks-1x

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember OS/2 by IBM which looked like Windows 3.11, and OS/2 Warp which looked like Windows 95. There were probably others.

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• bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  ViewMAX or GEM. Both from Digital Research.

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• unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  DOS Shell was something like that. Not much in the way of functionality, but it was graphical…ish.

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It looked like this:
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  It was pretty similar to modern Windows but without taskbar or Start menu.
  Instead, you had a main window called “program manager” with icons in it to start other programs.
  Do you have any specific questions about it?

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  • evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What is that? I don’t think that’s what I had in mind. I think it’s DESQview I was trying to think of. Anyway, not important… it was just driving me nuts I could not remember.

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry, I think I misunderstood your question.
      And I had literally never heard of any Windows 3 alternatives up to now.

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• Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  The first computer my dad bought, back in the late '80s, was mostly a DOS machine that also came with a mouse-driven GUI called GEM.

  I don’t know if it ran on top of DOS, though. It booted directly from its own set of disks.

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• one_old_coder@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Is there a specific screenshot you’re thinking of?

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  • evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    No, I figured if I could recall the name I could get a nostalgic fix by searching it. I found this:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview

    I recall DESQview was much lighter weight and better performing than Windows, but had limitations. I did not recall that the windows were text only within, but that’s starting to fill some holes in my memory.

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• teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  DOS Shell?

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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  q. name one os that sucked donkey balls getting a functional tcp/ip stack runnin'

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Oh Trumpet something… The hell of getting a stack back then

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  • evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In those days, DOS was the OS. Windows and DESQview were just window manager apps that ran other apps.

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    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      hence the single quotes

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