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From: funkstr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-)
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Subject: Re: 386 to the max
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Date: 12 Nov 88 02:49:48 GMT
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+-In article <581@husc6.harvard.edu>, ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani) wrote
| 	Does anyone know how this product might interact with, say,
| DESQview (which presumably expects QEMM to be used)?  Are any standards
| evolving for use of virtual mode on the 386?  It is, after all, a limited
| resource in the sense that only one program can manage it at a time.
| It would be nice to have a driver of which one could request not only
| LIM-style page mapping but other virtual 8086 mode features.  I would
| assume that QEMM already does something like this; is it documented?
| 
| 				Dan Lanciani
| 				ddl@harvard.*
+----------

  QEMM is a great deal like 386ToTheMax.  Although I haven't tested it
personally, I'm told that DesqVIEW should work with 386ToTheMax (I'll probably
be trying this in the next week or two; if you wish to find out, mail me).
As for "standards" for use of 386 protected mode... well, there's Windows 386,
and there's DesqVIEW/386 memory manager (which will allow you to run Phar Lap
Dos Extender 386 programs UNDER DesqVIEW, so you can MULTITASK Paradox386 and
others), and there's VM386, and a couple others (Omniview comes to mind).
  What QEMM does mainly is turn the 386 exTENDed memory into LIM exPANDed
memory so that DesqVIEW can use it, withouth DesqVIEW being a 386 protected
mode program itself (yes, friends, DesqVIEW runs in virtual 8086 mode, except
for some minor spots where it changes on loading into a 386).  It also
throws in some other utilities (loadhi, etc.).  And dat's da name of dat tune.


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