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In article <CB.91Jun17133909@tamarack12.timbuk> cb@tamarack12.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes:
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>Since the new DOS has paging and task switching, I'm unclear on what is still
>needed from a memory manager.  Is QEMM or MAX still useful?
>
At a pre-release presentation a Microsoft type stated that QEMM is viable and
useful under DOS 5, MAX not mentioned.  He said that although DOS 5 had the
ability to load stuff high that the features of QEMM were more sophisticated.
QEMM's optimise does all the hard work of figuring out the best fit for stuff
to load high. It seems that you have to do a little of your own figuring out
with DOS 5 - the MEM command helps with this and has new features since DOS 4.
NB That you can only load one thing into each vacant spot in upper memory.
So don't stick a 5k device driver into a 64k hole.  Another opinion given by
a more-than-happy beta tester was that he preferred to use DOS 5's memory
management features as they were all part of DOS 5 - if you get my drift.  I 
suppose if you,ve paid for QEMM certainly use it, but if you don't own a copy
then certainly give DOS 5's memory management a good shake.



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