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(Naut.) That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
Note: The quarter-deck is reserved as a promenade for the officers and (in passenger vessels) for the cabin passengers.
Quarterdeck Office Systems
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 The Quarterdeck logo from 1997. |
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| Fate | Acquired by Symantec |
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| Successor | Symantec |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Defunct | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Marina del Rey, California United States |
| Products | Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager, DESQview, DESQview/X, |
Quarterdeck Office Systems, later Quarterdeck Corporation, was an American computer software company. It was founded by Therese Myers and Gary Pope in 1981[1] and incorporated in 1982. Their offices were initially located at 150 Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California and later at 13160 Mindanao Way in Marina Del Rey, California, as well as a sales and technical support unit located in Clearwater, Florida. In the 1990s they had a European office in Dublin, Ireland. Their most famous products were the Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager, DESQview, CleanSweep, DESQview/X, Quarterdeck Mosaic, and Manifest.
In 1997, Quarterdeck acquired Datastorm Technologies Inc., publishers of ProComm, and relocated its technical support and development operations from California and Florida, to Datastorm's Columbia, Missouri headquarters.
In 1998, after the market for DOS utilities collapsed, Quarterdeck was acquired by Symantec (the Norton Utilities company). Symantec discontinued support of certain Quarterdeck products (eg. Mosaic), or integrated them into larger offerings (eg. CleanSweep became part of Norton SystemWorks).
List of software products
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- CleanSweep
- DESQ, predecessor to DESQview
- DESQview (DESQ successor, with Topview compatibility)
- DESQview 386 (DESQview that shipped bundled with QEMM 386)
- DESQview/X (an X based version of DESQview)
- Manifest
- Quarterdeck Mosaic
- Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager, formerly QEMM 386
- QRAM, a 80286-based expanded memory manager
- MagnaRAM
- GlobalStage IRC server (run on irc.scifi.com until 2003)
- GlobalChat IRC client
- Hijaak Graphics Suite
- GameRunner
- WebStar (via StarNine)
- TotalWeb
- WebTalk
- Quarterdeck Message Center
- ViruSweep
Notes
- ^ Larson, Jennifer (1993). "Quarterdeck Is Changing The Office Environment". General Computing 4 (8). http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2F1993%2Faug93%2F93n0803.asp.
External links
- Quarterdeck website from June 1997
- Merger announcement
- Usenet group for DESQview
- SEC 10-K form for 9/30/96
- Floor plan and Pictures of the Quarterdeck Building located in Columbia, Missouri that was purchased by the University of Missouri.
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