Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!gistdev!flint From: flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Qualitas 386MAX and Windows 3 ??? Message-ID: <1038@gistdev.gist.com> Date: 18 Dec 90 17:25:09 GMT References: <1990Dec16.125957.7517@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Organization: Global Information Systems Technology Inc., Savoy, IL Lines: 35 sgf0z@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steven Glenn Fox) writes: >Is anyone using Qualitas 386MAX version 5.0 with Windows 3.0? Yes and no. 386Max version 5.0 does not work with Windows 3.0: I've got 5.0 in use and windows will run, but is restricted to real mode. 386Max Version 5.1 is supposed to work with Windows- I don't have it installed yet (it just arrived) so I can't say. >I just received an offer to pick 386MAX cheaply >(as a PC Tools registered user, you can get it for $50). >Presently I do not use any memory manager and have definite >need for one. >This version of 386MAX says it coexists happily with Win 3.0 >in 386 Enhanced mode and can often clear up the whole lower >640K. >Can anyone back up this claim with personal experience and give >a general impression of 386MAX? 386MAX seems to me to be pretty good: but the most I've been able to clear is around 600K with V5.0: how much you can clean out depends a lot on how much memory is really free between 640K and 1M, and what the hardware of your machine is like. 386MAX has a MAXIMIZE installation program that figures a lot of stuff out for you, rather than you having to screw around for hours and hours. I'm very impressed with the company: I originally bought version 4, and 2 months later 5.0 came out so they sent it to me free when they got my registration. 2 months after that 5.1 came out (so it would work with windows) and they sent that free, without my even having to ask for it. -- Flint Pellett, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc. 1800 Woodfield Drive, Savoy, IL 61874 (217) 352-1165 uunet!gistdev!flint or flint@gistdev.gist.com