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- August 13, 1991
- NEWS RELEASE
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Charles McHenry
- (503) 772-2382
-
- QUARTERDECK INTRODUCES POWERFUL NEW QEMM-386
- VERSION 6.0 ADDS UP TO 211 KILOBYTES ADDITIONAL MEMORY
-
- DESQview, QRAM and QEMM 50/60 Users To Benefit From New Technology
-
- SANTA MONICA, Calif., August 13, 1991 -- Quarterdeck Office Systems,
- Inc. (NASDAQ: QDEK) today announced the industry's most powerful memory
- management and processor control program, QEMM-386 version 6.0.
-
- The Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager-386 (QEMM-386) is an
- intelligent, high-performance expanded memory manager that allows
- automatic, or custom user-configured management of all of a personal
- computer's memory: conventional, expanded, extended and high memory.
- Version 6.0 brings additional power and capabilities to QEMM-386's
- Optimize program -- which automatically configures memory and loads
- terminate and stay resident (TSR) programs and device drivers in high
- memory; adds new ROM detection and utilization technology to QEMM-386 --
- which will deliver many PC users up to 115 kilobytes additional high
- memory; adds support for the "Suspend-Resume" feature common to many
- battery-powered laptop PCs; adds support for the Chips & Technologies
- SCAT Shadow RAM memory; and, gives Windows 3.0 enhanced mode users 8K -
- 24K more memory for DOS.
-
- "The result is a more powerful, easier to use QEMM-386 that makes
- available more memory than previously thought possible," said Therese
- Myers, Quarterdeck's president and CEO. "Version 6.0 senses memory
- utilization patterns and requirements and responds in a variety of new,
- more powerful ways. The maximum memory gain to a power user could total
- an additional 211K of high memory."
-
- Features new to Optimize include:
-
- o The ability to process embedded batch files in a
- user's Autoexec.bat file. Previously, users wanting
- Optimize to see and process TSR load statements were
- required to include them directly into Autoexec.bat.
- This is no longer true. Users who like to keep their
- batch files small and organized by function will find
- this feature helpful;
-
- o "Squeeze," a new capability that can temporarily
- increase the high RAM region in high memory during a
- program's load and initialization. This feature is
- helpful for programs that require more memory while
- they are initializing than they do once they are
- resident;
-
- o Optimize now can automatically exclude portions of
- high memory accessed by device drivers and TSRs.
- This avoids conflicts with hardware that previous
- versions failed to detect;
-
- o Users can now create "response files" that QEMM-386's
- LOADHI programs can use to get information about
- where and how to load programs high. This feature is
- valuable for network users who load TSRs from public
- batch files on the network.
-
- o Optimize now lets users view, browse and play with
- the list of device drivers and TSRs that the program
- has relocated to high-memory -- allowing users to
- perform "What-if?" analyses with their memory
- configuration.
-
-
- STEALTH TECHNOLOGY
-
- Additional high memory provided by QEMM-386 version 6.0 results from a
- new feature called Stealth. Quarterdeck's new "Stealth" technology hides
- a PC's ROM code, and makes its memory addresses mappable as High RAM,
- which is then usable for other purposes.
-
- "Stealth employs a number of strategies, applied selectively and
- intelligently by QEMM-386, to generate additional mappable memory," said
- Gary Pope, Quarterdeck's co-founder and executive vice president,
- development. "This important new technology, unique to QEMM-386 version
- 6.0, is compatible with Microsoft's Windows environment."
-
- Stealth technology is dependent upon ROM design. ROM implementations by
- hardware manufacturers may cause one or more of Stealth's strategies not
- to work. Optimize will test a user's PC with all Stealth methods and
- recommend which method to use. Optimize will only present Stealth
- options to users if it cannot load all TSRs or drivers in high memory.
-
- Quarterdeck's new Stealth technology works with microcomputers from IBM
- and Compaq Computer, as well as with a majority of DOS-based PC clones.
-
-
- BATTERY-POWERED LAPTOP SUPPORT
-
- Many of today's battery-powered computers provide a Suspend-Resume
- feature that allows the system to be powered up in the same state as
- when it was turned off -- resuming an application in use just as if
- there had been no interruption. QEMM-386 version 6.0 supports this
- feature for many popular laptops. QEMM-386 will automatically try to
- detect this feature. If a laptop system supports Suspend-Resume, but
- QEMM-386 does not detect it, users can instruct QEMM-386 to do so.
-
-
- ADDITIONAL SHADOW RAM SUPPORT
-
- Earlier versions of QEMM-386 automatically detect Compaq-style Top
- Memory and Chips & Technologies NEAT, LEAP and AT/386 shadow RAM and
- make it usable as extended memory. QEMM-386 version 6.0 adds Chips &
- Technologies' SCAT Shadow RAM to this list.
-
-
-
-
- QEMM 50/60 FOR IBM PS/2 MODELS 50 AND 60
-
- QEMM 50/60, for 80286-based IBM PS/2s, takes advantage of the hardware
- capabilities of the IBM Personal System/2 80286 Memory Expansion Option,
- Expanded Memory Adaptor/A, or compatible memory boards to transform
- extended memory into expanded memory. QEMM 50/60 version 6.0 includes
- the increased functionality of "Optimize," and is now compatible with
- popular expanded memory boards from companies including but not limited
- to: AST Computer, Quadram, Tecmar, Orchid, Kingston Technology and Intel
- Corporation.
-
- Until December 31, 1991, registered QEMM-386 and QEMM 50/60 users may
- upgrade, from any previous version, for a $30 fee. QEMM-386 version 6.0
- will ship in early September, 1991.
-
-
-
-
- DESQview AND QRAM UPGRADED
-
- Quarterdeck's new technology will also be reflected in upgrades to
- DESQview-386 and QRAM. DESQview-386 version 2.4 will provide users with
- access to more memory when running DOS or Windows 3.0 programs in
- DESQview windows. "As a result, DESQview users will be able to open much
- larger windows," explained Pope. "Version 2.4 will make memory easier
- to use while extracting the maximum amount of memory available to DOS
- 5.0 users. Additionally, network managers will find DESQview and QRAM
- to be easier to set-up, with more powerful support for multiple network
- communications packages." Included in DESQview 386 v2.4 are special
- NETBIOS and Novell IPX/SPX drivers, to be used when running several
- network-specific programs via network gateways or when running
- client/server network application programs.
-
- DESQview users will be able to upgrade to DESQview 2.4 for a fee of $25,
- until December 31, 1991. DESQview-386 users will be able to upgrade for
- a $50 fee. New versions of DESQview will ship in early September.
-
- QRAM version 2.0 organizes and allocates memory resources on 808x and
- AT-style 286 machines. QRAM provides users of this class of machine,
- when equipped with EMS 4.0 or EEMS memory, the capacity to load programs
- into high memory. New to QRAM version 2.0 are the appropriate features
- of the upgraded "Optimize"; and, compatibility with the Chips and
- Technologies SCAT shadow RAM chipset. Registered users of QRAM will be
- able to upgrade to QRAM 2.0, also shipping in September, for a fee of
- $25. Users of any Quarterdeck product included in this upgrade that
- purchased their copies after August 19, 1991, will be able to upgrade at
- no charge.
-
- Quarterdeck Office Systems, Inc. is located at 150 Pico Blvd., Santa
- Monica, CA 90405. The company can be reached at (213) 392-9851.
- Quarterdeck Office Systems Canada, Inc. is located at 70 York Street,
- Suite 1220, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5J 1S9. Phone: (416) 360-5758;
- FAX: (416) 360-4885
-
- Please bear with me on this, folks; I expect a volume of mail on the
- subject. I'll be reticent to answer much until the product is released,
- but it's coming, and it's very real.
-
- Regards,
-
- Michael Bolton
- Tech Support
-
- Quarterdeck Canada (416) 360-5758
-