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A suite of [[TSR]] utilities that could be classified as a [[Personal Information Manager]], initially released in 1984 for DOS and became a surprise hit for software publisher [[Borland]] who sold over a million copies of the first release. Although software was developed for Sidekick in it's original version and there was some scope for development for the later Windows versions of the software, the extreme simplicity of the OS/2 [[PM]] version of it and the lack of an API meant that it was never used for OS/2 development. | A suite of [[TSR]] utilities that could be classified as a [[Personal Information Manager]], initially released in 1984 for DOS and became a surprise hit for software publisher [[Borland]] who sold over a million copies of the first release. Although software was developed for Sidekick in it's original DOS version, there was for a time something resembling and [[SDK]] for it available, and there was some scope for development for the later Windows versions of the software, the extreme simplicity of the OS/2 [[PM]] version of it and the lack of an API meant that it was never used for OS/2 development. | ||
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Revision as of 16:08, 13 April 2015
A suite of TSR utilities that could be classified as a Personal Information Manager, initially released in 1984 for DOS and became a surprise hit for software publisher Borland who sold over a million copies of the first release. Although software was developed for Sidekick in it's original DOS version, there was for a time something resembling and SDK for it available, and there was some scope for development for the later Windows versions of the software, the extreme simplicity of the OS/2 PM version of it and the lack of an API meant that it was never used for OS/2 development.
Version
- Last OS/2 version: Sidekick 2.0
- Requires OS/2 1.1 or higher.
- Sidekick Plus for DOS introduced in 1987
- Sidekick and Sidekick Deluxe for Windows 2.0 would run under WinOS/2