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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Extended and Expanded memory
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.032540.6437@amd.com>
Date: 22 Aug 90 03:25:40 GMT
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In article <2774@amc-gw.amc.com>
jwbirdsa@europa.amc.com (James Birdsall) writes:
|   So the average user is going to look at their docs, say "It sez 4.0",
|buy QRAM, and be very annoyed if they turn out to have a retread board. I
|salute Quarterdeck for putting out a product which, even if it works
|perfectly, is still going to cause them a lot of customer-support grief.
|   And if QRAM has a way around this problem or does something else
|entirely, please enlighten me.

QRAM is for the purpose of relocating network drivers and such. It
will work either with full 4.0 or with the C&T NEAT chipset (by using
the shadow RAM feature, I believe) Since the latter is a large part of
the market, QRAM will be useful for many customers. (but I don't know
how QRAM interacts with Windows 3.0)

DesqView, on the other hand, is nearly useless without FULL 4.0,
either implemented in hardware or with QEMM-386.

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