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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!magna!doc
- From: doc@magna.com (Matthew J. D'Errico)
- Subject: Re: qemm/qram
- Message-ID: <BuHArD.Dr7@magna.com>
- Organization: Magna Software Corporation
- References: <Art_Beyersdorfer.033g@edtng.uwp.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 18:45:12 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <Art_Beyersdorfer.033g@edtng.uwp.edu> you write:
- >I would like some information about the two programs, qemm and qram. Both
- >of those programs are from Quarterdeck, and I would appreciate finding out
- >what those programs do, and how well they work.
- >
- >Specifically for myself, I am running a very vanilla 286, 2meg of ram, no
- >LIM or other expanded memory drivers. I would still like to be able to do
- >some memory management, but because of the age of my processor, I have not
- >found anything that I thought would work, or, if it worked, it used up so
- >much of my 640k, that applications would start to fail.
- >
- >I had always understood that qemm would not work on a 286, but have
- >recently been told that it will. In any case, is it worth trying either of
- >those programs, and, if so, which one might make more sense for my system?
- >And, even more specific, what is it they are designed to do, and what do
- >they really do?
- >
- >-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
-
- QEMM is for i386 and up, and QRAM is for '286 systems...
-
- QEMM is a full-blown memory management system which replaces HIMEM.SYS
- *and* EMM386 as well as providing ROM overlay capability for access of
- otherwise inaccessible areas of memory... QEMM does *not* map VPMI,
- although Quarterdeck has a freeware add-on for that function.
-
- QRAM (promounced "CRAM") is roughly the euqivelent of EMM386 for '286
- systems... It will not map extended memory by itself, although you can
- use HIMEM.SYS or QEXT.SYS (which comes with QRAM)... It does a fairly
- good job... We use it in our LAN environment, because wihout it, there's
- not enough conventional memory to run anything useful...
-
- -- Doc
-