DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
X11 client and server. DOS. Windows 3.1. All with preemptive multitasking.
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X11 client and server. DOS. Windows 3.1. All with preemptive multitasking.
Blasphemy? Probably! But still pretty awesome!
The modern Linux distros owe their existence to those early releases, back in 1992.
Macintosh Application Environment for Unix -- from back in 1994.