Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!gistdev!flint From: flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: QEMM386 or 386MAX? Advice wanted. Message-ID: <1061@gistdev.gist.com> Date: 22 Jan 91 16:50:39 GMT References: Distribution: usa Organization: Global Information Systems Technology Inc., Savoy, IL Lines: 33 I'm using 386MAX 5.0 with Windows 3.0, 4dos, and several TSRs, and it works great. I don't know anything much on QEMM tho, but here are my experiences with 386 MAX: 1. I bought their previous release to 5.0 about 2 months before 5.0 came out. I sent in the registration, and they sent out 5.0 (without my asking) about a month later. However, 5.0 didn't work with windows, and they said so. I didn't have windows then, so I didn't care, but about a month later when I got windows, I was going to call them and see if they had a fix ready. That day, before I called, an update arrived in the mail to make it work with Windows! 2. When I installed Windows, I had trouble getting it to work at first. I called the vendor of my PC and spent about an hour with their tech support and only improved things slightly. I then called Qualitas tech support, and they were busy but said they'd call me back. I got the call back about an hour later and they had it all figured out for me inside 5 minutes. What I really like about 386 MAX is their Maximize utility: If you have space in high memory fragmented into maybe 4 different regions of various sizes, and have 6 TSRs to load into them of various sizes, figuring out how to fit those programs into those regions in the best way is pretty impossible. Run Maximize and it tries out the thousands of combinations that are available and sets everything up for the optimum configuration. For me, I spent about a whole day with the 386max version that preceeded Maximize getting it set up, vs. 5 minutes with Maximize, and Maximize gained me 3K over what I had _thought_ was the best I could do. -- Flint Pellett, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc. 1800 Woodfield Drive, Savoy, IL 61874 (217) 352-1165 uunet!gistdev!flint or flint@gistdev.gist.com