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From: alanr@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Alan Rovner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386^max questions
Summary: 386^max is a worthwhile product.
Message-ID: <4369@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 24 Mar 89 03:05:29 GMT
References: <200020@hpmcaa.HP.COM>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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In article <200020@hpmcaa.HP.COM>, marco@hpmcaa.HP.COM (Marco Dalla-Gasperina) writes:
> I've got a 386 machine with 3Mbytes of Extended Memory and 2Mbytes of Expanded
> Memory.  I develop windows apps, I'm on a network... blah,blah,blah.
> 
> I'd like to be able to use part of my extended memory to load some of
> my drivers and TSRs.  I understand that 386^max will do this for me (or
> a related Qualitas program called 386 load, which I know nothing about).
> marco@hpmcaa

I've been using 386 to the Max and 386load for a couple months now and
would recommend them to any 386 users.  So far I have my mouse driver,
Ramdisk driver, disk cache programsand other goodies out of base memory
giving me almost 600K of free base memory.  Everything seems to work fine
and I enjoy the extra space.

386^max only works with TSR's and other memory resident programs, however.
In order to move device drivers (DEVICE=xxx.SYS) out of base memory you
need 386load which is sold as a separate program.  For some odd reason,
before they will sell you 386load they want to know your serial number for
386^max.  I guess this is because 386load can't run without 386^max already
loaded.  All in all, it's a good product.

Al Rovner,
Tektronix Inc.
Vancouver, Wash.