>I'm looking for the memory manager of choice for clients on a Novell network.
>We are running Netware 3.11 and all of the clients are DOS 5.0 and use the ODI
>drivers, (because we use Lan WorkPlace and load tcpip). We also are all MS
>Windows 3.1 users so there is also smartdrv and sometimes graphic card drivers.
>To add to that, all clients load ansi.sys, a fax server driver, a modem server
>driver, and netbios for Lotus Notes.
>As you can see, when we are done, there is not much DOS mem left. We were usingQEMM but it is just a nightmare to support for 150 clients that are different
>and know nothing about their system config. We currently use just DOS himem andemm386. It works but it doesn't free up much dos mem.
There are not that many alternatives. QEMM is probably your only solution if
you want to stay with DOS. One thing you might want to try, though, is OS/2
2.1 (whenever it comes out). That version will have Win 3.1 functionality,
and should be great, since all your TSR's are loaded in an address space
separate from each of your dos sessions. With 2.0, I had both Novell IPX and
IBM TCP/IP stacks loaded, and still had 630k free in each of my DOS sessions.
Also, since you already have windows, the upgrade price shouldn't be too bad.
