How To Speed Up Your Computer (Part 3)

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Originally Posted by NYJimbo

The king of memory handlers was QEMM. You had to take a couple of weeks off from life to learn how to use this monster. Those of us who ran things like DesqView (before Windows) to run BBS systems had to master QEMM and often had config.sys entries with QEMM with 20+ software switches on the device driver line that took days to get right.

Havent had to worry about that since Windows 95.

Back in the day, I ran RA (Remote Access) BBS under Desqview. On a 386SX20 with 4Mb ram, we ran 4 nodes plus a local node. I can also remember setting up serial cards for those 4 Hayes 9600 external modems, making sure that com ports and IRQ's didn't conflict. Also needed a fifth com port for the serial mouse. Used up about every resource that poor little machine had. Makes my head hurt just to remember it.


Rick