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From: chris.chambers@rose.uucp (CHRIS CHAMBERS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Distribution: world
Subject: Memory managers/Adlib
Message-ID: <b59960c9b2b527fc1260@rose.uucp>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 22:00:00 EST
Organization: Rose Media, ON, CANADA
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AD|I am in the market for a memory manager for may model 55sx.  It has
  |4MB of ram and I am running IBM DOS 4.0 and MS Windows 3.0.

AD|Has anyone had any experiences with the new Windows-compatable memory
  |managers out there like QEMM386, and BlueMax by Qualitas?.  BlueMax
  |seems like the obvious choice, being designed with the ps/2's memory
  |specifically in mind.

I do not use Windows but am using BlueMax.  Yes it will compress the
BOIS and can also optionally reclaim the space reserved for BASIC.  I
have heard one report which indicates that BlueMax was able to reclaim
more space then QEMM resulting in more DOS space.

AD|Do these memory managers actually improve on the performance of
  |Windows?  crashes, sharing violations, etc.??

I would not expect it to improve the performance of windows unless
Windows benefits from more low address memory.  However, BlueMax is a
bit faster than the standard PC-DOS drivers which provide EMS memory.
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