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Everything about QEMM
Memory manager produced by Quarterdeck Office Systems
Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager (QEMM) is a memory manager produced by Quarterdeck Office Systems in the late 1980s through the late 1990s. It was the most-popular third-party memory manager for the MS-DOS and other DOS operating systems. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: QEMMA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Using QEMMThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Go sideways: Conventional memoryA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Upper memory areaA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
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đź“š Books worth reading
Using QEMMPhillip R. Robinson · 1992
QEMM Quarterdeck reference manualPhillip Glosserman · 1994- 📕QEMM 8Quarterdeck Corporation · 1995
Beyond the limits R. Campbell · 1993
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