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August 13, 1991
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Charles McHenry
(503) 772-2382
QUARTERDECK INTRODUCES POWERFUL NEW QEMM-386
VERSION 6.0 ADDS UP TO 211 KILOBYTES ADDITIONAL MEMORY
DESQview, QRAM and QEMM 50/60 Users To Benefit From New Technology
SANTA MONICA, Calif., August 13, 1991 -- Quarterdeck Office Systems,
Inc. (NASDAQ: QDEK) today announced the industry's most powerful memory
management and processor control program, QEMM-386 version 6.0.
The Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager-386 (QEMM-386) is an
intelligent, high-performance expanded memory manager that allows
automatic, or custom user-configured management of all of a personal
computer's memory: conventional, expanded, extended and high memory.
Version 6.0 brings additional power and capabilities to 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 -
24K more memory for DOS.
"The result is a more powerful, easier to use QEMM-386 that makes
available more memory than previously thought possible," said Therese
Myers, Quarterdeck's president and CEO. "Version 6.0 senses memory
utilization patterns and requirements and responds in a variety of new,
more powerful ways. The maximum memory gain to a power user could total
an additional 211K of high memory."
Features new to Optimize include:
o 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;
o "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;
o 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;
o 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.
o 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 a number of 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. "This important new technology, unique to QEMM-386 version
6.0, is compatible with Microsoft's Windows environment."
Stealth technology is dependent 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 new 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 of today's battery-powered computers provide a Suspend-Resume
feature that allows the system to be powered up in the same state as
when it was turned off -- resuming an application in use just as if
there had been no interruption. 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 and 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
capabilities 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
the increased functionality of "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
Corporation.
Until December 31, 1991, registered QEMM-386 and QEMM 50/60 users may
upgrade, from any previous version, for a $30 fee. QEMM-386 version 6.0
will ship in early September, 1991.
DESQview AND QRAM UPGRADED
Quarterdeck's new technology will also be reflected 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 powerful 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. is located at 150 Pico Blvd., Santa
Monica, CA 90405. The company can be reached at (213) 392-9851.
Quarterdeck Office Systems Canada, Inc. is located at 70 York Street,
Suite 1220, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5J 1S9. Phone: (416) 360-5758;
FAX: (416) 360-4885
Please bear with me on this, folks; I expect a volume of mail on the
subject. I'll be reticent to answer much until the product is released,
but it's coming, and it's very real.
Regards,
Michael Bolton
Tech Support
Quarterdeck Canada (416) 360-5758