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Hanging tough: Quarterdeck beats the big boys at their own game. (Quarterdeck Office Systems) (company profile)

Los Angeles Business Journal | December 21, 1987 | Copyright

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…

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