When memory and those frills collide

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Helix Software's $99 Netroom 3.02 and Qualitas's $99.95 386Max 7.0 and $124.95 BlueMax 7.0 Microsoft Windows-compatible MS-DOS extended memory management programs perform their function well. Unlike Quarterdeck's competing QEMM 7.01 utility, Netroom 3.02 does not freeze the keyboard when used in conjunction with Road Scholar's Razzle Dazzle screen-saver utility, though it does not allow Razzle Dazzle to run. Like QEMM, Netroom makes over 3Mbytes of conventional and extended memory available under Windows, and makes around 600Kbytes of conventional memory free. Version 3.02 comes bundled with screen-saver, screen-accelerator, disk-cache, RAM-drive, and anti-virus utilities of its own, and offers three levels of installation. Qualitas's memory-management utilities free up more conventional memory, over 700Kbytes, when run in conjunction with DOS character-based applications. BlueMax is for Intel 80286-based, 386Max for 80386-, 80486- and Pentium-based microcomputers.

Product/Service Evaluation, Operating system enhancements, Qualitas Inc., Operating System Enhancement, DOS extenders, Netroom 3.02 (Memory manager), 386Max 7.0 (Memory manager), BlueMax 7.0 (Operating system enhancement)

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A Windows' program for printing a panoply of computer pictures cheaply

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Micrografx Inc's $149.95 Windows Draw graphics software provides more than 2,600 samples of clip art to be used for desktop publishing with the Microsoft Windows 3.0 graphical user interface and gives users more tools than ever before presented in a low-end graphics package. Users can manipulate elements by moving, distorting and duplicating them. Drawing all manners of lines is a simple process. Windows Draw gives basic and fancy type faces, including Courier, Dutch, Swiss, Century Schoolbook and Vivaldi, which can be in plain, bold, italic and bold italic modes. The palette for coloring text, lines, fills and backgrounds is comprehensive, as is the ability to grade colors and blend from one to another. Bezier curves are also simple to generate. The manual is complete and detailed with instructions for most desktop publishing needs. In a Windows-related commentary, responses to the supposed superiority of mouse commands over keyboard commands are addressed.

Computer software industry, Software industry, Product introduction, Product Announcement, Graphics software, Keyboards (Computers), Mice (Computer peripherals), Mouse, Keyboard, Command-Driven User Interfaces, Micrografx Inc., Windows Draw (Draw software), Microsoft Windows 3.0 (GUI), MGXI

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Budgeting what you already have

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Headroom 2.02 ($129), from Helix Software, and SoftwareCarousel 3.0 ($89.95), from SoftLogic Solutions, are memory-management programs that can rejuvenate IBM PCs, XTs and ATs, providing added memory at much less than the price of a new system. Headroom 2.02 lets a user switch between applications and memory-resident programs easily and quickly, moving a program that is temporarily suspended to either extended or expanded memory, or to a hard disk. With enough memory chips and sufficient hard-disk space, a user can control as much as 32Mbytes of applications and memory-resident utilities. Headroom mediates between memory-resident programs that might otherwise fight for space, and Headroom gives application programs the full amount of memory they need. SoftwareCarousel 3.0 is similar, allowing a user to switch among as many as a dozen programs, but it does not include memory-resident programs.

Microcomputers, x86 compatible computers, Memory management, evaluation, Microcomputer, Memory-Resident Software, IBM PC AT (Microcomputer), Compatible computers, SoftLogic Solutions Inc., IBM PC XT (Microcomputer), Headroom 2.02 (Utility program), SoftwareCarousel 3.0 (Utility program)

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