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I almost got to use OS/2 for a commercial project.. we had fetch information from a PC desktop and feed it to an IBM mainframe while servicing up to two simultaneous users.

OS/2 1.1 EE had EHLLAPI support but was still a few months from release and I couldn't wait for it. I was really disappointed I didn't get to explore it fully because first look was really impressive.

I ended up using DOS + DESQview, and it worked out fine.

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DESQview. Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in 20 years.

DESQview API was pretty nice for the time.

I never used it, but I remember being blown away at the time by the screenshots and advertized features.

> I ended up using DOS + DESQview, and it worked out fine.

This was my standard setup for almost a decade, from my first 486 machine (my previous computer had been an 8088 PC clone, with only two 360K floppy drives and no hard disk) until I replaced it with a Windows 98 machine. I even ran Windows 3.1 occasionally in a DESQview window.

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