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From: dennis@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com (Dennis Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS Windows /286 + 386-to-max
Message-ID: <1862@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com>
Date: 23 Mar 89 15:37:18 GMT
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Reply-To: dennis@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Dennis Foster(AEP))
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In article <9067@netnews.upenn.edu> harnyo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Suwandi Harnyo) writes:
>I would like to know if there's anyone using the combination of
>MS windows /286 together with 386-to-max from Quintus. Is it true
>that this combination has the same capability as the MS windows/386.

I am using the setup you describe.  (BTW:  386-to-max is from a company
call Qualitas, not Quintus).  You do get the same EMS capabilities using
Windows/286 and 386MAX but you DO NOT get the same capabilities when
running old applications.  With Windows/386, most non-Windows applications
can be run in a window right along side all your Windows apps.  With the
Windows/286, 386MAX combination, you have the same restrictions/problems
running old apps as you would under just plain Windows/286.

What 386MAX does give you is the ability to load your TSR programs into
high memory (freeing more of your lower 640K for other things).  Using
a product called 386LOAD (also from Qualitas) you can also load device
drivers into high memory.  By high memory, I am referring to memory between
640K and 1Meg.

With my configuration (an NCR PC-916, EGA, 4Meg memory, Novell v2.12
over ARCNet, and the software to access an MS Programmer's library
CD-ROM through the network), I can have all my networking software 
and CD-ROM software loaded and still have 540K of memory available 
while sitting at a DOS prompt.