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From: lupin3@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: QEMM, and DesqVIEW, and PC-NFS, and findings...
Summary: (was Re: Interesting Info for '386 DOS users)
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Date: 31 Aug 88 05:34:42 GMT
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+-In article <339@octopus.UUCP>, pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) wrote:-
|
| 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...). 
+----------

  According to the docs for QEMM, it takes 1.5k of your 640k space.  How much
less could 386ToTheMax take?  It's been a while since I ran 386ToTheMax (more
on that later) but I remember that while their display was cooler looking,
it isn't any more informative.

+----------
| 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. 
+----------

  I dunno about that.  That is an interesting theory, but... I'll ask tomorrow
and see what Quarterdeck has to say about it.
+----------
| 4) Quarterdeck's technical support lines are so overloaded it is sick.
| 	386max is much easier to get support for.
| 
|   OOO   __| ___      Peter Holzmann, Octopus Enterprises
|   OOOOO \___/        UUCP: {hpda,pyramid}!octopus!pete
+----------

  That's oh so true... I've waited for 45 minutes on hold to them.  But once
you get through, you get someone really really knowlegeable.  (I was told
the reason they're always so overloaded is they get lots of STOOPID people
calling, wanting to know why their screen is locked up when they press
Ctrl-Numlock etc.)

  Now on to other stuff... I would try out using 386ToTheMax with our copy
of DesqVIEW (a beta copy of a new release, procured at the DesqVIEW API
conference), but I can't use 386ToTheMax with our 3Com 3c505 cards and their
drivers for PC-NFS.  Just plain don't work.
  Also... in the PC-NFS documentation, it states that telnet, rsh, rcp, and
ftp don't work (as of DesqVIEW 1.2.1).  Ancient history... ftp works fine,
rsh works fine, rcp probably works fine (I don't think I was using it right),
and telnet works with some restrictions.  (Restrictions like "Your machine
will crash every other time you use it..."; Telnet is about as well behaved
as a tempermental child.)
  Rsh, rcp, and ftp will work without any adjustment in a DOS window.  For
telnet, you need
	* about 200k (works for me)
	* Virtualize text/graphix NO
  This should be enough.  You can switch to other windows, but don't try and
remove telnet from memory unless you're REEEEAL careful.  I'm going to try and
talk to Sun about getting telnet to behave better.

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