[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] Qualitas 386MAX and Windows 3 ???

sgf0z@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steven Glenn Fox) (12/16/90)

Is anyone using Qualitas 386MAX version 5.0 with Windows 3.0?

I just received an offer to pick 386MAX cheaply
(as a PC Tools registered user, you can get it for $50).
Presently I do not use any memory manager and have definite 
need for one.  

This version of 386MAX says it coexists happily with Win 3.0 
in 386 Enhanced mode and can often clear up the whole lower
640K.  

Can anyone back up this claim with personal experience and give
a general impression of 386MAX?

Thanks!
Steven Fox                sgf0z@virginia.edu
Department of Systems Engineering, University of Virginia

flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) (12/19/90)

sgf0z@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steven Glenn Fox) writes:

>Is anyone using Qualitas 386MAX version 5.0 with Windows 3.0?

Yes and no.  386Max version 5.0 does not work with Windows 3.0:
I've got 5.0 in use and windows will run, but is restricted to
real mode.  386Max Version 5.1 is supposed to work with Windows-
I don't have it installed yet (it just arrived) so I can't say.

>I just received an offer to pick 386MAX cheaply
>(as a PC Tools registered user, you can get it for $50).
>Presently I do not use any memory manager and have definite 
>need for one.  

>This version of 386MAX says it coexists happily with Win 3.0 
>in 386 Enhanced mode and can often clear up the whole lower
>640K.  

>Can anyone back up this claim with personal experience and give
>a general impression of 386MAX?

386MAX seems to me to be pretty good: but the most I've been able to
clear is around 600K with V5.0: how much you can clean out depends a lot
on how much memory is really free between 640K and 1M, and what the
hardware of your machine is like.  386MAX has a MAXIMIZE installation
program that figures a lot of stuff out for you, rather than you
having to screw around for hours and hours.  I'm very impressed with
the company: I originally bought version 4, and 2 months later 5.0
came out so they sent it to me free when they got my registration.
2 months after that 5.1 came out (so it would work with windows) and
they sent that free, without my even having to ask for it.
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toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) (12/19/90)

I have just installed the new Version 5.1 386MAX and it works fine with
Windows 3. In fact my 4DOS shell within Windows has 585696 bytes free, 8k
more than QEMM can manage.

Now if Qualitas can only come up with an equivalent to QEMM's Manifest they
will be the clear leader IMHO.
--
Tom Almy
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