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From: boerner@ut-emx.UUCP (Brendan B. Boerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Using QEMM-386 v5.0 w/ Canon 386 - how it was resolved
Message-ID: <26896@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 90 23:46:06 GMT
References: <26701@ut-emx.UUCP> <258@tlvx.UUCP>
Reply-To: boerner@emx.UUCP (Brendan B. Boerner)
Organization: UT Austin Computation Center, Microcomputer Technologies
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In article <258@tlvx.UUCP> sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp) writes:
>What are you referring to?  I use 386-to-the-Max with DesqView, and it allows
>me to run a few programs at once, each one with over 400K.  (So, I know it's
>using the extended-turned-expanded, and not the 640K!)  So far, it hasn't
>been terribly useful (since what I run in the background merely takes yet
>more time to get done....).  I'm hoping it will occasionally have its uses
>though.

The QEMM/DV combination will allow applications which write directly to
the screen to run in the background AND in a small window without
writing outside of that apps. window.  For instance, while I was using
QEMM, I would run Turbo Pascal v5.0 in a small window in the background
without having my foreground window written over.  When using 386Max,
when I made the window small and then zoomed it back to fullsize, parts
of the Turbo screen were missing (menu bar, status line, etc...).  I
then told DV that Turbo DID write directly to the screen and that took
care of that problem.  However, when I started a compile and then made
the window small, the compile was paused.  If I left it in a full
screen window and brought another app. to the foreground, the info
concerning lines compiled overwrote my foreground apps. text (I told DV
that Turbo could run in the background).

>The lastest version of 386Max (4.08 I think?) has a new flag which has something
>to do with multitasking.. perhaps this makes a difference?

No, I think you might be referring to AMRS (Alternate Map Register
Sets).  Anyway, a tech. person I talked to at Qualitas told me that
they didn't know the exact protocol QEMM and DV were using to get this
virtual-8086 capability so couldn't do it.  He also couldn't tell me if
they would be able to provide this functionality in a future version.

Brendan
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