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Article: Hanging tough: Quarterdeck beats the big boys at their own game. (Quarterdeck Office Systems) (company profile)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 21, 1987
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Hanging tough: Quarterdeck beats the big boys at their own game
One single announcement almost wiped out Quarterdeck Office Systems in August 1984. BY JAY PINKERT
At that time, IBM introduced TopView, a multi-tasking, windowing program described by the company as a standard and one of its most strategic products ever for its industry-standard DOS operating system. Multi-tasking and windowing programs allow computer users to view and transfer data from several different programs at the same time.
Only a few months earlier, Quarterdeck's own program along these lines, DESQ, had hit the shelves after much advance acclaim. "After the (IBM) ...