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Everything about TopView
Former front-end to DOS
TopView is the first object-oriented, multitasking, and windowing, personal computer operating environment for PC DOS developed by IBM, announced in August 1984 and shipped in March 1985. TopView provided a text-mode operating environment that allowed users to run more than one application at the same time on a PC. IBM demonstrated an early version of the product to key customers before making it generally available, around the time they shipped their new PC AT computer. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TopViewA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: The programmer's guide to TopViewThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Multi-object extraction from topview group-housed pig images based on adaptive partitioning and multilevel thresholding segmentationCited 55 times
- Go sideways: DESQviewA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Windows 3.0A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Multi-object extraction from topview group-housed pig images based on adaptive partitioning and multilevel thresholding segmentation
Efficient topview person detector using point based transformation and lookup table
Park marking-based vehicle self-localization with a fisheye topview system
TopView: vectorising road users in a bird’s eye view from uncalibrated street-level imagery with deep learning
Running topview on your PCJR: A lighthearted look at PC projections
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕The programmer's guide to TopViewAlan R. Miller · 1985
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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