jim@world.std.com (James D. McNamara) (09/25/90)
The October 1990 issue of ``PC World'' announced that Quarterdeck Systems is releasing Version 5.1 of their QEMM memory manager. The new version claims full compatibility with MS Windows 3.0. Quarterdeck points out -- when asked *why* QEMM is needed if a PC is running Windows -- that QEMM can move drivers to expanded memory, whereas Windows inherently can not. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - James D. McNamara, jacked-in at... | jim@world.std.com 45 Cleveland Street #1, Arlington, MA 02174-6915| Phone: (617) 648-2440
thorh@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Thor Hallen) (09/25/90)
In article <1990Sep25.023816.16260@world.std.com>, jim@world.std.com (James D. McNamara) writes: > The October 1990 issue of ``PC World'' announced that Quarterdeck > Systems is releasing Version 5.1 of their QEMM memory manager. The > new version claims full compatibility with MS Windows 3.0. > > Quarterdeck points out -- when asked *why* QEMM is needed if a PC is > running Windows -- that QEMM can move drivers to expanded memory, > whereas Windows inherently can not. > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > James D. McNamara, jacked-in at... | jim@world.std.com > 45 Cleveland Street #1, Arlington, MA 02174-6915| Phone: (617) 648-2440 With a few exceptions, QEMM 5.11 performs as advertised. Namely, you can load your TSR's and drivers into high DOS memory (>640k) and be able to run 386 enhanced mode. Version 5.0 allowed only real mode. We have found it necessary to use the "NOSORT" switch on the installation command line to prevent crashing and file corruption when exiting windows. This is not discussed in the documentation. This is a minor flaw when you consider that it provides EMS, XMS, HMA and ROM mapping while using less memory overhead than HIMEM.SYS. Thor Hallen Tektronix, Inc.
ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) (09/26/90)
In <1990Sep25.023816.16260@world.std.com> jim@world.std.com (James D. McNamara) writes: >Quarterdeck points out -- when asked *why* QEMM is needed if a PC is >running Windows -- that QEMM can move drivers to expanded memory, >whereas Windows inherently can not. According to their ads, their another situation where this combo would be useful: when you're running Windows and non-Windows applications together. Of course, for this you need DesqView.... -- ergo@netcom.uucp Isaac Rabinovitch {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo Silicon Valley, CA Collins's Law: If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. Corollaries ("Rabinovitch's Rules of Sane Dialogue"): 1. Everybody who matters is stupid now and then. 2. If I'm being stupid, that's my problem. 3. If my being stupid makes you stupid, that's your problem. 4. If you think you're never stupid, boy are you stupid!
gavin@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Gavin C. H. Zau) (09/29/90)
We have installed QEMM 5.1 with windows 3.0. Things work perfectly even when people switch between DOS and WIN. I did notice that the expanded memory availabe from my lotus 123 is only about 400k vs 3M in DOS. I was able to loadhi my PCNFS drivers also, which gave me about 30-40k more conventional memory. -- **************************************************************** Gavin Zau Dept of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA gavin@caf.mit.edu ****************************************************************