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Re: QEMM386 or 386MAX? Advice wanted.

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From: Kevin D. Quitt
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 1991 20:19
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In article <BCHEN.91Jan21114625@wpi.WPI.EDU> bchen@wpi.WPI.EDU (Bi Chen) writes:
>
>Hi, Dear netter:
>
>I bought my 386/25 recently with 4MB ram installed and bundled with some
>popular softwares such as MS-DOS4.01 and Windows3.0. I heard both QEMM386
>and 386MAX will save some low memory by loading TSR/dirver to high. I
>would like to order one to free some low memory for my compiler and still 
>keep some useful TSRs handy around. One of my friend has a similar machine 
>and installed QEMM386. But he told me that QEMM386 could not install some 
>TSR such as pcshell or desktop in pctools even though he had a lot of 
>expenad memory. But form what I read form menu that the 386MAX does not
>coexist with window3.0. Is the problem mentioned caused by his wrong 
>installation of QEMM386(ver. 5.11 as he told me) or by QEMM386. Will the 
>QEMM386 be any helpful if I run window in 386 enchanced mode? Which is 
>better, QEMM386 or 386MAX? Will either later version will load those 
>big ("usually < 50KB") TSR to high memory?

    Version 5.1 of 386MAX is certified as a "Microsoft(r) Windows(tm)
Version 3.0 Compatiable Product".  And does all sorts of whiz-bang stuff.


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From: kdq@demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt)
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Subject: Re: QEMM386 or 386MAX? Advice wanted.
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Date: 21 Jan 91 20:19:01 GMT
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