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From: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Interesting Info for '386 DOS users
Summary: 386max is almost identical to QEMM, except...
Message-ID: <339@octopus.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 04:22:57 GMT
References: <337@octopus.UUCP> <588@tapa.UUCP>
Reply-To: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
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Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino CA
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In article <588@tapa.UUCP> larry@tapa.UUCP (Larry Pajakowski) writes:
>>[addendum to my article re: Desqview and 386 to the Max...]
>
>Just a short mention of QEMM like DesqView also from Quaterdeck systems.
>We've been using it since August of last year and the latest releases also
>support a loadhi command which used address space above 640.  You of course
>must have some extended memory for QEMM to map into the lower 1mb.
>
Quarterdeck (makers of Desqview and QEMM) are doing a pretty good job of
keeping up with the Joneses (Qualitas, who make 386max). I guess I should
have mentioned both in the same breath in my original article. Actually,
I checked both out, side by side, in order to decide which is better.
My conclusions:

1) Old versions of QEMM just don't make it, much of the time. If you have
	a copy older than 4.10, upgrade it. It will be well worth it!
	You'll get just about everything 386max gives you.

2) 386max is somewhat better than QEMM. It uses less of the 640K space. It
	is better at giving back your upper DOS memory. It has nice
	extra status reports to tell you what is happening with all of
	your RAM (where is ROM? what is my EMS RAM being used for? What is
	my upper DOS ram used for? How fast are the different memory chips
	I've got? Etc...). 

3) Quarterdeck doesn't like Qualitas. They keep trying to make Desqview
	incompatible with 386max. F'rexample, if you don't have the latest
	386max (2.62), it won't work with the Desqview extended memory
	driver (QEXT.SYS). Qualitas will send an upgrade for free. 

4) Quarterdeck's technical support lines are so overloaded it is sick.
	386max is much easier to get support for.

For now, I'd get 386max. Quarterdeck may come out with a new killer version
	of Desqview/QEMM that does something 386max can't, in which case
	maybe it would be worth switching. Since the original cost of these
	things is about the same price as an upgrade of QEMM from Quarterdeck,
	it doesn't really matter!

Enough (probably too much!) said. I'll shut up now :-)

Pete
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