Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/08/18/04:50:38
> > Use QEMM 7.04, and you'll have 630K free conventional memory. In
> > your case, seems this would be quite a win. And no, I'm not an
> > employee of Quarterdeck, neither one of their stack-holders.
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii
>
> I don't think this is the place to start a memory manager war, but some
> (maybe most?) people can do with the FREE memory manager they get with
> DOS (emm386.exe) and have no reason to spend more money for something
> that doesn't really improve their system much. I say, if emm386 will
> work for you, use it! If it doesn't one of the third party memory
> managers may do the job for you, and you should look into them.
>
>
> Fred Reimer
I think it's not a question of what You get but what You want.
Using qemm, You get a lot of flexibility (dynamic XMS/EMS balance,
loading of drivers outside of config.sys etc., besides of
achieving more conventional memory left).
For my needs I decided recently not to use qemm or even emm386 even
more, just a plain himem.
Of course, the DOS-memory is much less now, BUT:
having pure XMS without anything ([q]emm) that intercepts priviledged
instructions, the system is MUCH faster (and with some software it's
even more stable) than before.
And I suggest anybody that joins the fight for some additional
bytes in the DOS-region to ask himself FOR WHAT ???
I scanned my disk and found that any reasonable software is 32-bit
anyway (djgpp eg.), and those DOS-programs that are left are not
so memory-consumptive anyway.
Hope this helps.
Thomas Eifert
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