Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 09:36:37 +0100
From: "Th. Eifert" <EIFERT AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject: Re: [summary] Using make with jed386
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Reply-To: eifert AT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen

> > 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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