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From: stel@tank.uchicago.edu (stelios  valavanis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview 386 Problems
Summary: judge too quick
Message-ID: <4887@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 7 Aug 89 21:58:30 GMT
Reply-To: stel@tank.uchicago.edu (stelios  valavanis)
Organization: University of Chicago
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In article <2520@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In article <632@dtix.ARPA> jmoore@dtix.navy.mil (Jim Moore) writes:
><Situation :
><
><   I recently bought DesqView (V 2.2) and QEMM.  GOAL : to be able
><   to run Ventura publisher 2.0 in extended memory via Desqview
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                           runs only in conv. mem but this was only a mistake

><   execute dv, the open a window and run the memroy status program.
><   It tells me there is 3300K of available extended memory and
><   the largest block size is 430K!!!  The DesqView manual says that
><   there should be 550K for the largset block!!!
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
             this person clearly understands that he doesn't get all
the memory for program space!

>You have a complete mis-understanding of what multi-tasking software will
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    don't be so quick to judge!  he did understand

>do for you.  If you are thinking that you can make DV give VP more than
>640K to work with, forget it.  Even though you have 4Mb of memory in the
blah blah blah...

>of software and provide all the memory that can be given to VP.  Also, don't
>use DV, as you will lose some of the 640K.
not realy.  DV can go up high and you can get rid of buffers, move
drivers, etc, lots of good stuff

>Remember DV is for when you want to run more than one DOS program at the
>same time, not to manage memory for a single DOS program.
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
         ok you have a point there. he might have misunderstood that
i don't know
flame off
stel
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