Re: DPMI (Re: pkz204c.exe is available)

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From: J. D. McDonald
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:59

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In article <C0p9DK.HME@SSD.intel.com> jkearns@ssd.intel.com (Jerry Kearns) writes:

>In article <1993Jan11.123715.10856@cs.tcd.ie>, dherity@cs.tcd.ie (Herity D.) writes:

>A PC running DOS can be "used as a 386", i.e., run in 386 mode, without using
>DPMI.  DPMI is a multitasking spec (replacing VCPI), used by programs like
>MS Windows and DESQview.

DPMI can supplement VCPI but cannot "replace" it. There are things 
that can be done with VCPI that are impossible with DPMI. It would be
easy to fix the DPMI spec, but this has not been done.

Doug McDonald

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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
Subject: Re: DPMI (Re: pkz204c.exe is available)
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