Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!valley From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: In praise of QEMM-386 Message-ID: Date: 28 Jan 91 22:52:57 GMT References: <3981@stl.stc.co.uk> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 33 ndh@stl.stc.co.uk (Neale D Hind ) writes: >Summary of this posting >_______________________ >o QEMM-386 seems an excellent product (I have no connection with > Quarterdeck) >o When trying to maximise the number of Devices/TSR's in high memory, > try swapping around the order in which they are loaded in your > config.sys and autoexec.bat files. >o Do read through the Fine-tuning parameters in the manual. Especially > the EMBMEM and EXTMEM if you are having problems with applications > clashing (eg some need expanded, others extended, memory). >o Statements in postings along the lines of "Product 'A' does not work > with product 'B'" most likely mean "I do not know how to make product > 'A' work with product 'B'" Yes. One question though (probably get an answer quicker here than from QuarterDeck - they may be a great company technically, but their customer support sucks) : Given that programs often need much more space to load than they leave resident, it should be possible to load them in such a way that even though there isn't enough High Ram available for their load image, if there is enough available for their TSR image, all is well. I.e., 386MAX supposedly (haven't seen it up close and personal) allows you to temporarily deactivate the EMS page frame, so that a TSR can load part of its run time image there. I.e., suppose your TSR requires 40K to load, but only 17K resident. Further, suppose that the only remaining slot of High Ram starts at D800:0 and the EMS page frame is at E000:0. Would QEMM allow you to load your TSR high? If so, how?