386^MAX (originally386 to the Max, laterQualitas MAX) is a computermemory manager forDOS-basedpersonal computers.^[1] It competed with Quarterdeck'sQEMM memory manager. It was manufactured byQualitas.

BlueMax was a special version designed for the IBM PS/2 with ROM compression to get the most of the Upper Memory Blocks.

In 2022, the source code was made available on GitHub, and released under theGNU GPL v3 license by Bob Smith of Sudley Place Software.^[2] It joined other tools that Smith had originally written at Qualitas which had their source code released in 2012:^[3]

• DPMIONE, aDPMI 1.0 host component
• 386SWAT, a protected-mode debugger
• QLINK, alinker tool written to handle 32-bit data types, in support of the 386SWAT program

• MSDPMI

• Qualitas support page
• DPMIONE Documentation File Version 0.91
• 386^MAX source code on GitHub

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