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Office supplies

ITEMS REGULARLY USED IN OFFICES BY BUSINESSES AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

Office supply; Office equipment; Office product; Office products; Office Supplies

Office supplies are consumables and equipment regularly used in offices by businesses and other organizations, by individuals engaged in written communications, recordkeeping or bookkeeping, janitorial and cleaning, and for storage of supplies or data. The range of items classified as office supplies varies, and typically includes small, expendable, daily use items, consumable products, small machines, higher cost equipment such as computers, as well as office furniture and art.

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office

ROOM WHERE PEOPLE PERFORM OFFICE WORK

Office building; Offices; Class A office space; Class A Office Space; Work office; Office complex; Office block; Corporate office; Office blocks; Medical office building; Main offices; Class a office space; Office buildings; Class B office space; Class C office space; Commercial office; Office development; Class A office; Commerical office; 🏢; Office design; Medical office buildings; History of office design

function

place where a function is performed

1) to assume (an) office

2) to hold; take office

3) to seek (public) office

4) (pol.) to run for (AE), stand for (BE) office

5) to resign from (an) office

6) (pol.) (an) appointive; elective; high; public office

7) a branch; head, home, main office

8) a booking; box, ticket; business; dead-letter; dentist's (AE); doctor's (AE); lawyer's; left-luggage (BE); lost-and-found (AE), lost property (BE); met (BE), meteorological (BE); patent; post; printing office

9) at, in an office (she works at our office)

10) (pol.) in; out of office (our party is out of office)

ministry

(BE)

11) the Foreign; Home office

misc.

12) smb.'s good offices ('smb.'s services as a mediator') USAGE NOTE: In North America, doctors and dentists have offices; in Great Britain, they have surgeries.

QEMM386

MEMORY MANAGER PRODUCED BY QUARTERDECK OFFICE SYSTEMS

QEMM386; QEMM-386; Qemm; MagnaRAM; Quickboot (QEMM); Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager; Quarterdeck Manifest; Quarterdeck MFT; MFT.EXE; Quarterdeck QEMM; Quarterdeck QRAM; QMMXXXX0; QEXTXXX0; QEMM386$; Dan Spear

<software, storage> A combined expanded memory manager and extended memory manager for IBM PCs with an Intel 80386 or higher processor from Quarterdeck Office Systems. QEMM386 can also act as an UMB provider and an {A20 handler}. (1996-01-10)

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Quarterdeck Office Systems

Quarterdeck Office Systems, later Quarterdeck Corporation (NASDAQ: QDEK), was an American computer software company. It was founded by Therese Myers and Gary Pope in 1981 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, Manifest and Partition-It.

On April 18, 1989, Quarterdeck was awarded a US software patent that allowed multiple windowed PC applications under MS-DOS.

After sales and its stock plummeted in 1995, interim CEO King R. Lee hired Gaston Bastiaens as CEO. In order to diversify the company's product offerings, Bastiaens began an ultimately unsuccessful acquisition spree.

In 1995, the company acquired Landmark Research International Corp. for 3.5 million shares of Quarterdeck (acquiring MagnaRAM and WinProbe) and then Inset Systems, Inc. of Brookfield, Connecticut in September of that year for 933,000 shares of Quarterdeck (acquiring HiJaak graphics software in the deal).

In March 1996, Quarterdeck acquired Datastorm Technologies, Inc., publishers of PROCOMM and PROCOMM PLUS, and relocated its technical support and development operations from California and Florida, to Datastorm's Columbia, Missouri headquarters.

In July 1996, Quarterdeck acquired Vertisoft Systems, publishers of the DoubleDisk and Fix-It utilities, also for 3.5 million shares of Quarterdeck. Both Landmark and Vertisoft had extensive revenues from direct-marketing of third party products through telemarketing and direct mail.

Bastiaens resigned in August 1996, and Quarterdeck continued under acting Co-CEOs King R. Lee, and Anatoly Tikhman, the former CEO of Vertisoft. The company announced a restructuring and a loss, and in January 1997, Quarterdeck hired Curtis Hessler to run the company.

In 1998, with its DOS utilities market all but collapsed, Quarterdeck was acquired for $0.52 per share by Symantec (the Norton Utilities company), which discontinued support of some Quarterdeck products, e.g., Mosaic, and integrated others into larger offerings, e.g., CleanSweep, which became part of Norton SystemWorks.

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