gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett) (02/05/90)
I have a growing amount of software which can take advantage of EMS memory. Problem is, I don't have EMS RAM. I have an extra megabyte of extended memoryi, on a 386sx PC. My understanding is that QEMM offers a clever way to fool applications looking to use EMS. I'm interested in hearing from anyone using QEMM. What are the pluses and the "gotchas". By the way, I am not looking to use MSWindows just to make use of my extra RAM. QEMM seems a way to avoid Windows altogether. Thanks for any help and advice. -- ======================================================================== Gary L. Barrett My employer may or may not agree with my opinions. And I may or may not agree with my employer's opinions. ========================================================================
doug@ozdaltx.UUCP (Doug Matlock) (02/06/90)
In article <875@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM>, gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett) writes: > > I'm interested in hearing from anyone using QEMM. What are the pluses > and the "gotchas". I have been using QEMM and DESQview on a Compaq 386 for several months. We are developing a turnkey system and the client didn't want to spring for the necessary RAM for OS/2. I think QEMM is great. The only real gotchas are that you have to be a fairly dedicated hardware-head to set up the system properly. Much tweaking can be done by loading some drivers and TSRs into high memory (though not all will like it up there -- gotcha) but the problem is that most of the high memory area is largely undocumented, and each PC vendor has "special" things living up there. -- Doug. "If you want Peace, work for Justice."