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From: sac90286@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kubla Khan)
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Subject: DESQview 386 Question
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Date: 5 Aug 89 14:17:25 GMT
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In article <8989@cs.Buffalo.EDU> ugbell@sunybcs.UUCP (William Bell) writes:
>
>  Does anyone use DeskView 1.0 with or without QEMM 4.2??
>
>  I was wondering:
>1) How much memory would you say is adaquate?

I'd recommend a MINIMUM of 2Mb of RAM. DESQview has many features, and thus 
uses up a lot of memory. My system has 2Mb and I haven't run into any memory
problems so far (of course, I don't usually run any mongo-sized programs under
DESQview, either!)

>2) Is it true that you can run 2 programs simulataneous? A friend of mine
>   said I could run a BBS in the background and play a game in the forground.
>   Is this true? Is anyone using DeskView to do this exact thing? How about
>   running a BBS in the background throught COM1: and using procomm
>   through COM2:?

I run a BBS, but not under DESQview. My machine at home runs DoubleDOS with one
partition for the BBS and the other for whatever I want. Under DDOS I am able to
run the BBS on one COM port while simultaneously using the other for something
else. I think it's safe to assume that DESQview can do anything that DDOS can.
I do know of at least one BBS that does run under DESQview. If you have a '386
and at least 2Mb RAM, DESQview can't be beat!
 
>3) Is there a way to use memory from 640K to 1 Meg for resident programs?
>   Or is this just used for BIOS and MOS 4.01??

Depending on your machine, QEMM can remap that 384K chunk so that it's usable
for your programs, but you're much better off using it as shadow RAM for your 
system and video BIOS. The performance improvement is quite dramatic and well 
worth the loss of that "extra" 384K.

Good Luck!