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cb@tamarack12.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes:

>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?

Both Microsoft and the memory manager vendors agree that what you get with
DOS 5 is about what the third-party vendors were offering four years ago
or so.  The code packaged with DOS 5 does a pretty good job of military
packing; the other vendors (QEMM, 386^max, etc) do a better job of grocery
packing.

Military packing: load up the Herky bird until the next box won't fit,
                  close the cargo door, and dispatch.  Anything which
                  didn't make it on the first pass is left behind.

Grocery packing (especially in a Volkswagen Bug): Put in all the groceries
                  which fit; if any are left over, empty the car and try
                  again until you find a combination in which every bag
                  is inside the car and there's still room for the driver.

Users who are really hurting for memory will still find the third-party
memory managers valuable, but much of their basic function is now part of
DOS.

Joe