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- The DV Tree Manifesto
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- DV Tree is intended to fill a gap in the world of DOS file
- managers and shells - that gap, specifically, is for users of Quarterdeck
- Office Systems' multitasking environment DESQview. DV Tree is
- DESQview-specific, meaning that if you don't run it under DESQview, you
- can't run it all. One of beauties of DESQview, in contrast to other
- IBM-compatible operating systems such as OS/2 or Windows, is that it can
- multitask just about any DOS software WITHOUT modification - essentially,
- if it'll run under DOS, it'll run under DESQview. For DESQview users,
- this is both good and bad, good in that they can run whatever they already
- own without having to buy operating-environment specific software, bad in
- that developers, knowing that whatever they write will run under DESQview
- anyway, tend not to write anything that won't run OUTSIDE of DESQview -
- all this meaning that software written to take advantage of DESQview's
- unique environment rarely gets written except by Quarterdeck itself. DV
- Tree, I hope, will prove this tendency ill-advised.
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- Michael D. Weaver
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