If only DESQview/X had been launched when Quarterdeck starting talking about it

A response to an HN comment ... The PC press had rumours of Quarterdeck's successor to DESQview, Desqview/X, from around 1987-1988. That is roughly when I entered the computer industry. Dv/X was remarkable tech, and if it had shipped earlier could have changed the course of the industry. Sadly, it came too late. Dv/X was rumoured then, but the state of the art was OS/2 1.1, released late 1988 and…