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...
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run." IBM was notably absent from Microsoft's announcement, and the corporation rejected Windows in favor of creating its own product called TopView. By...
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version of DOS. In the fall of 1984, IBM gave all the source code and documentation of the internally developed IBM TopView for DOS to Microsoft so that Microsoft...
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text-based and graphical user interface operating environments such as IBM TopView, Microsoft Windows, Digital Research's GEM Desktop, GEOS and Quarterdeck...
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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)...
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CleanSweep DESQ, predecessor to DESQview DESQview (DESQ successor, with IBM TopView compatibility) DESQview 386 (DESQview that shipped bundled with QEMM...
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developed by Arca Noae. The first version was released in May 2017. IBM TopView TopView was an object-oriented operating environment that loaded on a PC...
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International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered...
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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...
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The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the...
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interest from OEMs, particularly IBM (who previously gave Microsoft multitasking code on IBM PC DOS included with TopView), led to it being released only...
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An IBM PC compatible is any personal computer that is hardware- and software-compatible with the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and its subsequent models...
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Timeline of DOS operating systems (category DOS on IBM PC compatibles)
IBM PC compatibility". InfoWorld. 7 (19). InfoWorld Media Group: 17–18. ISSN 0199-6649. IBM. TopView Announcement Letter. 1985-02-19 ([12]). Topview in...
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Philip Don Estridge (category IBM employees)
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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official family was changed to IBM Z from IBM z Systems; the IBM Z family will soon include the newest model, the IBM z17, as well as the z16, z15, z14...
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The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978. System/360...
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Dynamical Systems Research Inc., sought to produce Mondrian, a clone of IBM's TopView multitasking environment for DOS. Myhrvold served as Dynamical Systems...
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IBM Watson is a computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language. It was developed as a part of IBM's DeepQA project by a research...
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IBM DevOps Code ClearCase (also known as IBM Rational ClearCase) is a family of computer software tools that supports software configuration management...
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International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a multinational corporation specializing in computer technology and information technology consulting...
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ThinkPad (redirect from IBM Thinkpad)
and manufactured by the American International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation. IBM sold its PC business to the Chinese company Lenovo in 2005 and since...
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Steve Jobs (category People from Mountain View, California)
from Apple".: 322 Windows-based IBM-PC clones also led to the development of additional GUIs such as IBM's TopView or Digital Research's GEM,: 322 and...
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FlexOS (redirect from IBM 4680 OS)
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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Research positioned Concurrent DOS 4.1 with GEM as alternative for IBM's TopView in 1985. Concurrent DOS 3.2 (with BDOS 3.2) in 1984 was compatible with...
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GEM (desktop environment) (section ViewMAX for DR DOS)
with GEM as alternative for IBM's TopView. DRI originally designed GEM for DOS so that it would check for and only run on IBM computers, and not PC compatibles...
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The IBM Personal Computer BASIC, commonly shortened to IBM BASIC, is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer, Model...
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Color Graphics Adapter (redirect from IBM Color Graphics Adapter)
Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, introduced in 1981, was IBM's first color graphics card for the IBM PC and established a de...
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company offered the software for USD49.99, pitting it against competitors TopView and Windows. A review in 1986's Business Software found programs running...
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(PDF). IBM (FTP). Retrieved 2008-10-12.[dead ftp link] (To view documents see Help:FTP) "Globalization Library – Locale Data: Algeria" (PDF). IBM (FTP)...
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