TopView is the first object-oriented, multitasking, and windowing, personal computer operating environment for PC DOS developed by IBM, announced in August 1984[1] and shipped in March 1985.[2][3] TopView provided a text-mode (although it also ran in graphics mode) operating environment that allowed users to run more than one application at the same time on a PC. IBM demonstrated an early version of the product to key customers before making it generally available, around the time they shipped their new PC AT computer.
environment. TopView ran in graphics mode (TOPVIEW /G); however, this was rarely used. By mid-1987, IBM began to shift focus away from TopView and was promoting...
and windowing capabilities to DOS; in fact, there was a predecessor, IBMTopView, which shipped March 1985,. Under DESQview, well-behaved DOS programs...
version of DOS. In the fall of 1984, IBM gave all the source code and documentation of the internally developed IBMTopView for DOS to Microsoft so that Microsoft...
text-based and graphical user interface operating environments such as IBMTopView, Microsoft Windows, Digital Research's GEM Desktop, GEOS and Quarterdeck...
IBM manufactured magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD)...
At the time of his death, IBM ESD, which included the development and manufacturing of the IBM PC, PC DOS, PC LAN and TopView, had nearly 10,000 employees...
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trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries. IBM is...
out from under the Concurrent contenders. Some 180K in size, TopView is a program for IBM PC's and AT's that beefs up the operating system to provide windowing...
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CleanSweep DESQ, predecessor to DESQview DESQview (DESQ successor, with IBMTopView compatibility) DESQview 386 (DESQview that shipped bundled with QEMM...
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designed, developed and marketed by International Business Machines (IBM) starting in 1992. IBM sold its PC business, including laptops to Lenovo in 2005, and...
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Remington Rand settled quickly. IBMviewed its business as providing a service and that the cards were part of the machine. IBM fought all the way to the Supreme...
IBM i (the i standing for integrated) is an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems. It was originally released in 1988 as OS/400, as...
from Apple".: 322 Windows-based IBM-PC clones also led to the development of additional GUIs such as IBM'sTopView or Digital Research's GEM,: 322 and...