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From: rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: aadvantages of QEMM?
Message-ID: <21213@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 26 Jan 91 21:33:49 GMT
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6600wise@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Mike Schmitt) writes:

>QEMM's primary advantage on 386 machines (it does require a 386) is
>to load drivers and other such things into high memory, giving you
> ...
>However, in order to do it, it grabs about 800K of your memory once
>you count in all of the things it does.  

This is slander: on my system (386-33, VLSI 82c102 chipset), QEMM 5.11
has overhead of exactly 164 Kb, most of which is used for shadowing
ROM BIOS and the VGA ROM.  The memory actually lost to QEMM internals
is around 32 Kb.

--richard