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From: arnesen@aftp.UUCP (Geir Arnesen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DESQview, any opinions out there?
Keywords: DESQview, Quarterdeck, QEMM
Message-ID: <519@aftp.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 89 06:51:36 GMT
References: <4808@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: arnesen@aftp.UUCP (Geir Arnesen)
Organization: Aftenposten, Oslo, Norway
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In article <4808@ubc-cs.UUCP> klee@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Kenneth Lee) writes:
>I am currently considering the purchase of DESQview 2.2 or 386
>depending on whether I end up buying a 286 or a 386 for my next
>system.  In the August issue of BYTE, there is a two page ad for
>the following Quarterdeck products:  DESQview 2.2, DESQview 386,
>QEMM, DESQview API Toolkit.  Has anyone in netland used any of 
>these products?  If so, what do you think of the products that 
>you have used?  Would you use MS-Windows instead of DESQview?
>
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It depends whether you want multitasking possibilites or not. With 
a AT 286 you would not get multitasking with the MS-windows,- you get it
with the Desqview. The problem is the memory handling when you choose
the AT. 

I run an AT286 with Desqview 2.2 and 4mB ram, used as extended. And with
an extra card (All charge card) - a MMU which is placed between the
286 processor and the processor socket. This card does the same which
is possible to do with software on a 386 (Qemm.sys and 386max). This card
handles the memory, and gives me possibilities to run programs up to 
576k (in memory) in conventional memory and the same in expanded memory.

(The all charge card emulates expanded memory out of extended, and lifts
the device drivers up in an area above 640 k which is used as extended mem.)

Regards


Geir Arnesen


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