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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: QEMM + Windows386 enhanced mode for AST --how
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.193951.3723@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 27 Mar 91 19:39:51 GMT
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Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
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In article <39010003@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell) writes:
>Unless Quarterdeck have stated outright that QEMM 5.1 is compatible with Windows386 Enhanced mode I think I'd be careful about my assumptions. My experience
>with windows indicates that getting a foreign memory manager to work comfortablywith windows' own is not at all easy. Worse still it is not particularly safe
>to be emulating or using expanded memory in enhanced mode which uses extended
>memory. This causes frequent switching and possible timing problems.
>
>Why do you have to use QEMM - cant emm386.sys do the job?
>

There are many things that qemm does that himem/emm386 don't do. Like
properly handle upper memory blocks, allowing you to loadhi drivers and TSR's.

Yes, Quarterdeck has oficially said that 5.11 is compatible with windows. I
use it with my SCSI based 386/25 clone with no trouble. I can loadhi lots of
stuff and save over 30K of lower memory so I have over 580K available to DOS.
Other people have actually been able to get 600K free.

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