Editing IBM TopView (section)

==Reception==
''InfoWorld'' in 1985 described TopView as "bland, plain vanilla software that hogs far too much memory".<ref name="fawcette19850311">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5C4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA5 |title=Awaiting PC AT Clones |magazine=[[InfoWorld]] |date=1985-03-11 |access-date=2015-02-01 |author-last=Fawcette |author-first=James E. |page=5 |type=editorial}}</ref> ''[[BYTE]]'' also criticized TopView's memory usage, but stated that "you will find that most software written for the IBM PC is TopView-compatible". Noting the low price and "innovative multitasking features", the magazine predicted that the software "will attract a lot of takers".<ref name="byers1985fall">{{cite journal |url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1985-11/1985_11_BYTE_10-11_Inside_the_IBM_PCs#page/n249/mode/2up |title=TopView |journal=[[BYTE]] |date=Fall 1985 |access-date=2016-03-19 |author-last=Byers |author-first=T. J. |page=247}}</ref>

In 1985, [[Digital Research]] positioned their multitasking [[Concurrent DOS 4.1]] with [[Graphics Environment Manager|GEM]] as alternative for TopView.<ref>{{cite journal |author=CW |title=Concurrent DOS 4.1 in den USA angekündigt |language=de |date=1985-06-21 |journal=[[Computerwoche]] |url=http://www.computerwoche.de/a/concurrent-dos-4-1-in-den-usa-angekuendigt,1169757 |access-date=2017-01-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118112800/http://www.computerwoche.de/a/concurrent-dos-4-1-in-den-usa-angekuendigt%2C1169757 |archive-date=2017-01-18 }}</ref>