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- From: Sprague.Wbst311@Xerox.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 386Max and QEMM386
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.153323.18875@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 15:33:23 GMT
- Sender: news@spectrum.xerox.com
- Followup-To: 386Max and QEMM386
- Organization: Xerox
- Lines: 27
- Originator: msprague@superior
-
- In reading a couple of reviews, both QEMM and 386max are
- highly rated. One specific review said that in DOS, 386max
- gave slightly more free space than did QEMM. In addition, if
- you run windows, it was reported that 386max was better than
- QEMM, as QEMM did some strange things behind windows back.
- 386max was also supposed to be easier to install. In any case,
- the reviewer strongly suggested that you buy one of the two.
-
- In addition, we have had trouble installing QEMM on PC's at
- work, and to get everything working right, we had to remove
- it. It wasn't a big deal, as these machine were intended
- as test equipment for the lab, and didn't really need a fancy
- memory manager. In other words, it wasn't worth our time to
- figure out why the machine locked up when using QEMM. :-)
-
- Based on all that, I purchased 386max for my machine. Sure
- enough, it was easy to install, and as expected, it saved me
- quite a bit of base memory, over and above what the MS-DOS
- memory manager had done (I think it was close to 100K). I
- have not had a single problem with it, even though I changed
- the configuration of my hardware, and had run the installation
- again with the reconfigure switch.
-
- Over all, I am _very_ happy with 386max, but I don't think you
- will go wrong with either package.
-
- ~ Mike (sprague.wbst311@xerox.com)
-