Thank you for evaluating QEMM 8 and its components. Your reports are
valuable to us, and will help us to develop a better product for you.

The following notes describe in brief the new features in QEMM 8,
provide some suggestions for testing, and include some notes on problems
of which we are already aware.

QEMM 8 includes the following components:

QEMM -- the industry-standard memory manager.

ú QEMM's basic memory management features, as they appear to the
  end-user, should be largely unchanged from 7.53, the current shipping
  version of QEMM. QEMM's initialization size is smaller than before,
  and QEMM displays this size for the beta release.

ú The DOS-Up and DOSDATA components have been modified to work with
  Microsoft Windows 95. DOS-Up will now allow DOS resources to be loaded
  above the 640K line in Windows 95.

ú Stealth D*Space, if specified in CONFIG.SYS, should refrain from
  installing itself on MS-DOS 7 / Windows 95 systems. QSETUP should
  refrain from setting up Stealth D*Space on anything other than MS-DOS
  6.x systems that are using Microsoft's DoubleSpace or DriveSpace.

Quarterdeck MagnaRAM

ú MagnaRAM increases memory available to Microsoft Windows by enhancing
  Windows' virtual memory system. MagnaRAM creates a buffer in memory,
  and stores within that buffer code and data that would otherwise have
  gone to the Windows virtual memory swap file.

ú MagnaRAM is loaded via a .VXD -- MAGNA31.VXD for Windows 3.1x, and
  MAGNA95.VXD for Windows 95. QSETUP should add the line

  device=c:\qemm\magna31.vxd

  to the [386Enh] section of the Windows SYSTEM.INI file in Windows 3.1,
  and should add the .VXD to the Windows 95 Registry. In Windows 3.1
  QSETUP should also modify  the SYSTEM.INI to reflect your
  configuration settings in the following categories:

  [Quarterdeck_MagnaRAM]
  COMPRESSION=
  COMPRESSION_BUFFER_SIZE=
  COMPRESSION_THRESHOLD=

ú QSETUP should also add the line

  run=C:\QEMM\LOGO31.EXE

  to the WIN.INI file in Windows 3.1x (or LOGO95.EXE in Windows 95).

ú We are interested in your experiences with MagnaRAM, and we are
  particularly interested in performance differences on systems that
  have relatively small amounts of memory -- 4MB to 8MB.

OPTIMEMM (working name)

ú OPTIMEMM is designed to increase the amount of available USER and GDI
  resources in Windows 3.1x (including Windows for WorkGroups).

ú This technology goes by the preliminary name of OPTIMEMM. This will
  change before release. The benefit of this technology is to allow the
  user to run more programs with more stability under Windows 3.1x.

ú Note: The OPTIMEMM technology is still in an Alpha release state.  We
  have included it in the QEMM 8 Beta for preliminary testing and
  feedback only. Although OPTIMEMM is not likely to cause damage to your
  system, we recommend that you do not test OPTIMEMM while you are
  working on mission-critical projects. Instead, use sample data with
  your usual applications. Please report in detail any problems that you
  experience; note the application(s) that you were running, and the
  complete contents of any error messages.

ú OPTIMEMM is not yet fully implemented nor integrated with QSETUP. At
  this time, you may enable OPTIMEMM by running OPTIAPP.EXE from the
  QEMM 8 installation directory, which you can do via the File / Run
  command, or by starting OPTIAPP from your file manager.

ú Note: OPTIMEMM will not run under Windows 95, though OPTIAPP should
  terminate gracefully if it is loaded in Windows 95.

ú If you receive any kind of error related to OPTIMEMM or OPTIAPP while
  testing, further testing is not likely to be useful; shut down Windows
  and restart it. Additionally, you should not disable OPTIAPP after
  starting it; instead, shut down Windows and restart it if you want to
  refrain from using OPTIMEMM.

ú OPTIAPP displays the USER and GDI resources as reported by the system
  in the first column; the second column displays OPTIMEMM's report of
  resources available with OPTIMEMM active; and the third displays
  OPTIMEMM's report of what resources would be if OPTIMEMM were not
  active. OPTIMEMM's benefits should be more apparent the more programs
  you have loaded.  Please feel free to experiment with your favorite
  applications, and report the amounts of USER and GDI memory in use and
  saved by OPTIMEMM.  Also note any discrepancies between the Current
  System and With OPTIMEMM columns; they should be the same.

KEEP1MEG (working name)

ú KEEP1MEG is designed to prevent Windows programs from installing
  modules in conventional memory unnecessarily.

ú This technology goes by the preliminary name of KEEP1MEG. This will
  change before release. The benefit of this technology is to allow you
  to load more programs under Windows before receiving "out of memory"
  errors.

ú KEEP1MEG should be added to the Windows WIN.INI file by QSETUP, using
  this syntax:

  drivers=keep1meg.dll

  which allows KEEP1MEG to be loaded when Windows starts. If you have
  other drivers loading in WIN.INI, KEEP1MEG should be added to the
  BEGINNING of the drivers= line:

  drivers=keep1meg.dll otherdrv.dll andso_on.dll

ú Keep1Meg can be loaded in Windows 95, but will have no net benefit.


A new version of QSETUP

ú QSETUP has been redesigned to be visually compatible with Windows 95,
  and to configure QEMM and the new features described above.

QEMM.EXE

ú QEMM.EXE is a new reporting program for QEMM and its components. This
  program will be placed into the Quarterdeck QEMM group by INSTALL. Use
  it to explore Windows memory in real-time.  The program is currently
  under construction, and will undergo considerable enhancement in
  future beta releases.

ú Manifest

  QEMM 8 includes a new version of Manifest, which provides more extensive
  reporting on Windows memory management than previous versions.

ú OPTIMIZE

  A new version of OPTIMIZE, designed to start and end the OPTIMIZE
  process within Microsoft Windows, is included in the package.

