Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager (QEMM) is a memory manager produced by Quarterdeck Office Systems in the late 1980s through the late 1990s. It was...
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DESQview (section DESQview and QEMM)
of the Intel Pentium processor, the 386 in QEMM was dropped. The combination package of DESQview and QEMM-386 was called DESQview 386 (DV386). With the...
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[…] QEMM's DOS-UP feature does not expect this […] This results in ca. 1 Kb less conventional memory than the theoretical possible maximum under QEMM […]...
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GEMMIS API, some of the ones that include it are: EMM386.EXE, Quarterdeck QEMM, Qualitas 386MAX, Helix Netroom and DOSBox builtin DOS. Notably missing are...
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solutions requiring the Intel 80386 processor, for example Quarterdeck's QEMM, Qualitas' 386MAX or the default EMM386 in MS-DOS, PC DOS and DR-DOS. Beginning...
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basic functionality of QEMM and comparable programs. The advantage of DR DOS 5.0 over the combination of an older DOS plus QEMM was that the DR DOS kernel...
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of this technology and the first company to use it. However, over time, QEMM and 386MAX became the standard packages. Windows/386 and later releases contained...
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independent companies, such as Norton Utilities, PC Tools (Microsoft Anti-Virus), QEMM expanded memory manager, Stacker disk compression, and others. During the...
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applications function properly in FreeDOS, as do some rare GUI programs, like QEMM and Bochs. FreeDOS is able to run Microsoft Windows 1.0 and 2.0 releases...
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Neither of these versions worked with DOS memory managers like CEMM or QEMM or with DOS extenders, which have their own extended memory management and...
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functionality. Commercial alternatives include Manifest MFT.EXE from Quarterdeck's QEMM. MSD.EXE first shipped with Microsoft Word for Windows, and was later included...
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MDA/HGC) or 736 KB (with CGA). Memory managers on 386-based systems (such as QEMM or MEMMAX (+V) in DR-DOS) could achieve the same effect, adding conventional...
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interfaces and environments for MS-DOS compatible operating systems DESQview + QEMM 386 multi-tasking user interface DESQView/X (X-windowing GUI Banyan VINES...
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caches (since DOS 6, or with FreeKEYB loaded). Some 386 memory managers (e.g. QEMM) can intercept and turn this into a quick reboot. If more than one task is...
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XMS support was provided by HIMEM.SYS or a V86 mode memory manager like QEMM or 386MAX which also supported EMS. Starting with DOS 5, DOS could directly...
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solutions, named expanded memory managers. Some memory managers are QRAM and QEMM by Quarterdeck, 386MAX by Qualitas, CEMM by Compaq, and later EMM386 by Microsoft...
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TopView compatibility) DESQview 386 (DESQview that shipped bundled with QEMM 386) DESQview/X (an X based version of DESQview) GameRunner GlobalChat IRC...
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manager for DOS-based personal computers. It competed with Quarterdeck's QEMM memory manager. It was manufactured by Qualitas. BlueMax was a special version...
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memory for DOS applications. Expanded memory managers such as Quarterdeck's QEMM product and Microsoft's EMM386 supported the expanded memory standard without...
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the DOS multitasking tool DESQview in combination with the memory manager QEMM. Some sysops tried to run PCBoard on the (then) new Windows 95 operating...
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manager, may manage both expanded and extended memory 386MAX CEMM EMM386 QEMM This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Memory...
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Technologies (Phoenix BIOS, PMate, PForCe, Plink-86) Quarterdeck Office Systems (QEMM, DESQview, DESQview/X) Rational Systems/Tenberry Software (DOS/16M, DOS/4G...
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advised non-technical gamers to purchase commercial memory managers like QEMM and 386MAX and criticized nonstandard software like Origin Systems's "infamous...
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hepunx.rl.ac.uk. "Definition of Adobe Type Manager". pcmag.com. "DESQview/QEMM Frequently Asked Questions: READ BEFORE POSTING". 14 July 1997. Archived...
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1990, p. 13 Retail DOS 5.0 Spells Big Bucks, InfoWorld, October 22, 1990 QEMM, Desqview 386 Upgrades Ship, InfoWorld, September 10, 1990 IBM Seizes Control...
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programs. QDPMI by Quarterdeck Office Systems, was a DPMI host included with QEMM. GO32, used in older (pre-v2) versions of DJGPP, and Free Pascal D3X is an...
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Systems, VCPI is provided by an expanded memory manager in DOS (e.g. CEMM, QEMM, later EMM386) and does allow 80386 protected-mode DOS extenders to coexist...
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early DOS memory manager made by V Communications similar to the likes of QEMM, Helix Netroom or 386MAX, though much more capable. It allowed up to 904KB...
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Virtual 8086 Mode Enhancements (VME) VME (CONFIG.SYS directive) (in OS/2) QEMM Collins, Robert. "The Pentium's Enhanced v86 Mode", www.rcollins.org, January...
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run. To keep a reasonable amount of base memory free mandated the use of QEMM or a similar memory manager. This problem went away once 386-based PCs became...
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