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      QUARTERDECK QEMM-386 V 6.0
      ADDS UP TO 211 KILOBYTES ADDITIONAL MEMORY

      SANTA MONICA, Calif., August 13, 1991--Quarterdeck
      Office Systems Inc (NASDAQ: QDEK) today announced QEMM
      386 version 6.0. The Quarterdeck Expanded Memory
      Manager-386 (QEMM-386) is an intelligent expanded-
      memory manager that allows automatic, or custom user-
      configured management of all of a PC's memory:
      conventional, expanded, extended, and high memory.
      Version 6.0 has the following new features: it
      enhances QEMM-386's Optimize program--which
      automatically configures memory and loads terminate
      and stay resident (TSR) programs and device drivers in
      high memory; adds new ROM-detection and -utilization
      technology to QEMM-386--which will deliver many PC
      users up to 115 kilobytes additional high memory; adds
      support for the "Suspend-Resume" feature common to
      many battery-powered laptop PCs; adds support for the
      Chips & Technologies SCAT Shadow RAM memory; and,
      gives Windows 3.0 enhanced-mode users 8k to 24k more
      memory for DOS.

        Said Therese Myers, Quarterdeck's president and CEO,
      "Version 6.0 senses memory-utilization patterns and
      requirements and responds in a variety of new ways.
      The maximum memory gain to a power user could total an
      additional 211k of high memory."

        Features new to Optimize include:

         The ability to process embedded batch files in a
      user's autoexec.bat file. Previously, users wanting
      Optimize to see and process TSR load statements were
      required to include them directly into Autoexec.bat.
      This is no longer true. Users who like to keep their
      batch files small and organized by function will find
      this feature helpful;

         "Squeeze," a new capability that can temporarily
      increase the high RAM region in high memory during a
      program's load and initialization. This feature is
      helpful for programs that require more memory while
      they are initializing than they do once they are
      resident;

         Optimize now can automatically exclude portions of
      high memory accessed by device drivers and TSRs. This
      avoids conflicts with hardware that previous versions
      failed to detect;



         Users can now create "response files" that QEMM-
      386's LOADHI programs can use to get information about
      where and how to load programs high. This feature is
      valuable for network users who load TSRs from public
      batch files on the network.

         Optimize now lets users view, browse and play with
      the list of device drivers and TSRs that the program
      has relocated to high-memory, allowing users to
      perform "what-if?" analyses with their memory
      configuration.

      STEALTH TECHNOLOGY

       Additional high memory provided by QEMM-386 version
      6.0 results from a new feature called Stealth.
      Quarterdeck's new "Stealth" technology hides a PC's
      ROM code, and makes its memory addresses mappable as
      High RAM, which is then usable for other purposes.

        "Stealth employs several strategies, applied
      selectively and intelligently by QEMM-386, to generate
      additional mappable memory," said Gary Pope,
      Quarterdeck's co-founder and executive vice president,
      development. "Stealth is compatible with Microsoft's
      Windows." Stealth technology depends upon ROM design.
      ROM implementations by hardware manufacturers may
      cause one or more of Stealth's strategies not to work.
      Optimize will test a user's PC with all Stealth
      methods and recommend which method to use. Optimize
      will only present Stealth options to users if it
      cannot load all TSRs or drivers in high memory.
      Quarterdeck's Stealth technology works with
      microcomputers from IBM and Compaq Computer, as well
      as with a majority of DOS-based PC clones.

      BATTERY-POWERED LAPTOP SUPPORT

        Many battery-powered computers provide a
      Suspend/Resume feature that allows the system to be
      powered up in the same state as it was when it was
      turned off, resuming an application in use just as if
      no interruption occurred. QEMM-386 version 6.0
      supports this feature for many popular laptops. QEMM-
      386 will automatically try to detect this feature. If
      a laptop system supports Suspend-Resume, but QEMM-386
      does not detect it, users can instruct QEMM-386 to do
      so.

      ADDITIONAL SHADOW RAM SUPPORT



        Earlier versions of QEMM-386 automatically detect
      Compaq-style Top Memory as well as Chips &
      Technologies NEAT, LEAP and AT/386 shadow RAM and make
      it usable as extended memory. QEMM-386 version 6.0
      adds Chips & Technologies' SCAT Shadow RAM to this
      list.

      QEMM 50/60 FOR IBM PS/2 MODELS 50 AND 60

        QEMM 50/60, for 80286-based IBM PS/2s, takes
      advantage of the hardware of the IBM Personal System/2
      80286 Memory Expansion Option, Expanded Memory
      Adaptor/A, or compatible memory boards to transform
      extended memory into expanded memory. QEMM 50/60
      version 6.0 includes "Optimize," and is now compatible
      with popular expanded-memory boards from companies
      including but not limited to: AST Computer, Quadram,
      Tecmar, Orchid, Kingston Technology and Intel.

        Until December 31, 1991, registered QEMM-386 and
      QEMM 50/60 users may upgrade, from any previous
      version, for a $30 fee. QEMM-386 and QEMM 50/60
      versions 6.0 will ship in early September.

      DESQview AND QRAM UPGRADED

        Quarterdeck's new QEMM will also be in upgrades to
      DESQview-386 and QRAM. DESQview-386 version 2.4 will
      provide users with access to more memory when running
      DOS or Windows 3.0 programs in DESQview windows. "As a
      result, DESQview users will be able to open much
      larger windows," explained Pope. "Version 2.4 will
      make memory easier to use while extracting the maximum
      amount of memory available to DOS 5.0 users.
      Additionally, network managers will find DESQview and
      QRAM to be easier to set up, with more support for
      multiple network-communications packages." Included in
      DESQview 386 v2.4 are special NETBIOS and Novell
      IPX/SPX drivers, to be used when running several
      network-specific programs via network gateways or when
      running client/server network application programs.

        DESQview users will be able to upgrade to DESQview
      2.4 for a fee of $25, until December 31, 1991.
      DESQview-386 users will be able to upgrade for a $50
      fee. New versions of DESQview will ship in early
      September. QRAM version 2.0 organizes and allocates
      memory resources on 808x and AT-style 286 machines.
      QRAM provides users of this class of machine, when
      equipped with EMS 4.0 or EEMS memory, the capacity to
      load programs into high memory. New to QRAM version


      2.0 are the appropriate features of the upgraded
      "Optimize;" and, compatibility with the Chips and
      Technologies SCAT shadow RAM chipset. Registered users
      of QRAM will be able to upgrade to QRAM 2.0, also
      shipping in September, for a fee of $25. Users of any
      Quarterdeck product included in this upgrade that
      purchased their copies after August 19, 1991, will be
      able to upgrade at no charge.

        Quarterdeck Office Systems Inc, 1901 Main Street,
      Santa Monica, CA 90405. [phone].