QuickWin was a library from Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 that made it possible to compile command line MS-DOS

MS-DOS

MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...

 programs as Windows 3.1 applications, displaying their output in a window.

Since the release of Windows NT

Windows NT

Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement...

, Microsoft has included support for console windows in the Windows operating system itself, eliminating the need for QuickWin.

There is a program called QuickWin on CodeProject, which does a similar thing.

External links

• CodeProject QuickWin (not the original Microsoft library)