QB 4.5 and emm386

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 10-17-92 (15:19)             Number: 327
From: RICK PEDLEY                  Refer#: NONE
  To: BASIL MEDDINGS                Recvd: NO  
Subj: QB 4.5 and emm386              Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

 On 10-15-92 Basil Meddings wrote to All...

 BM> Discovered by accident that putting ANY expanded memory manager in my
 BM> CONFIG.SYS file makes QB 4.5 programs run three times slower. Just
 BM> putting
 BM> the emm in is sufficient, even if nothing is loaded high later the
 BM> slow
 BM> down still occurs.

You're not the first one to discover this.  I can't remember who
it was now (maybe Dave Cleary), but someone was talking about it
here around a year ago.  Something to do with QB doing extra
memory checks on each calculation.  Anyway, it _isn't_ anything
you're doing wrong.


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