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In article <BuHArD.Dr7@magna.com>, doc@magna.com (Matthew J. D'Errico) writes:
> In article <Art_Beyersdorfer.033g@edtng.uwp.edu> you write:
>>I would like some information about the two programs, qemm and qram.  Both
>>of those programs are from Quarterdeck, and I would appreciate finding out
>>what those programs do, and how well they work.
>>
>>Specifically for myself, I am running a very vanilla 286, 2meg of ram, no
>>LIM or other expanded memory drivers.  I would still like to be able to do
>>some memory management, but because of the age of my processor, I have not
>>found anything that I thought would work, or, if it worked, it used up so
>>much of my 640k, that applications would start to fail.
>>
>>I had always understood that qemm would not work on a 286, but have
>>recently been told that it will.  In any case, is it worth trying either of
>>those programs, and, if so, which one might make more sense for my system? 
>>And, even more specific, what is it they are designed to do, and what do
>>they really do?
>>
>>-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
> 
> QEMM is for i386 and up, and QRAM is for '286 systems...
> 
> QEMM is a full-blown memory management system which replaces HIMEM.SYS
> *and* EMM386 as well as providing ROM overlay capability for access of
> otherwise inaccessible areas of memory...  QEMM does *not* map VPMI,
> although Quarterdeck has a freeware add-on for that function.
> 
> QRAM (promounced "CRAM") is roughly the euqivelent of EMM386 for '286
> systems...  It will not map extended memory by itself, although you can
> use HIMEM.SYS or QEXT.SYS (which comes with QRAM)...  It does a fairly
> good job...  We use it in our LAN environment, because wihout it, there's
> not enough conventional memory to run anything useful...
> 
> -- Doc
Excellent answer Doc, but just in case Art didn't completely catch
what you meant, I'll clarify.
QRAM allows you to load device drivers, TSRs, buffers, etc into high RAM
rather than conventional memory ( the dreaded 640K limit) allowing bigger
programs to run, larger files to be edited/manipulated, etc.
QEXT.SYS, in managing extended memory, allows those DOS programs requiring
more than 1mb RAM like 123 Release 3.1 to run when combined with those 286s
with more than 1 mb RAM.

Any more questions I can answer directly with e-mail.

Lawrence Dee