On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Andrew S. Baker<[email protected]> wrote:
> QEMM was cool, but there were two other competitors:
>
> 1 that I forget, and another that became my favorite:  Helix NetRoom...

  You might be thinking of 386MAX.  Of the two, I liked QEMM better.
I never used Helix.

  Ah, the days of having multiple boot configurations to load
different drivers depending on what you were going to run, all because
of the 1 MB real mode memory limit and the 640/384 KB split.  Anyone
here ever install a Hercules monochrome card just to raise the
conventional memory ceiling to 704 KB?  I knew someone who did that on
his BBS, before the days of extended memory managers.

  Of course, these days, we sometimes encounter a 2 GB memory limit,
due to the 2/2 GB user/kernel split.  Ah, progress!  (?!?)  :-)

-- Ben

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