To: visick AT ewald DOT mbi DOT ucla DOT edu
Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] prospective user questions
Message-ID: <19970310.222840.6447.0.editor@juno.com>
References: <9703110153 DOT AA22469 AT ewald DOT mbi DOT ucla DOT edu>
From: editor AT juno DOT com (Bruce Morgen)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:29:52 EST
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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:53:04 -0800 visick AT ewald DOT mbi DOT ucla DOT edu (Jonathan
Visick) writes:
>
>        (2) Is Opendos compatible with QEMM?  

Yes, I use it with v7.04 on two 
systems.  Look up any 
Quarterdeck ".TEC" files 
mentioning Novell DOS 7, OpenDOS 
is a fairly minor tweak to that 
product and can fairly be seen 
as Novell DOS 7.01.

>Or does it have built-in
>memory management of similar quality?  

Imho it's not as good as QEMM 
and not as game-friendly as 
MS's HIMEM.SYS/EMM386.EXE.  I 
stuck with QEMM.

>I'd be hard pressed to give up the
>significant amount of driver space in upper memory provided by QEMM's
>Stealth technology, not to mention the 637K of available conventional 
>that
>can be had with QEMM's ability to move files, buffers and most of DOS 
>and 4dos to upper memory.
>
Yeah, I wouldn't give it up 
either, even though with v7.04 
I can manage "only" 634K 
conventional.

>        I'd be grateful for any details on these matters, especially 
>from
>those who have used QEMM and DESQview in the past and can give me a 
>good
>comparison.  Feel free to e-mail me directly if you don't want to 
>respondto such "Opendos novice" questions on this list!
>
Imho the questions were good, 
hope the answers were too.