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In article <4205.9211171028@thor.cf.ac.uk> wdrdjh@thor.cf.ac.uk (Dr D J Harvey 92) writes:
>I've heard a rumour that Borland C++ 4.0 is due to ship at the end of this
>year and will include a DOS extender.  How well founded is this this
>info?  Also, does anyone knwo (or have any idea) what the compliance
>modes (e.g. DPMI etc) of the extender will be and whether there are
>likely to be any distribution royalties on programs that include it?

Since Borland Pascal 7 has now shipped and includes a royalty-free DOS 
extender, it seems a pretty good bet.  The extender works with DPMI, not 
VCPI, but provides a DPMI server that can run in a VCPI system (like QEMM 
and Desqview).  It should also run on a bare system with no server, but I 
haven't tried it yet.

The extender supports DLLs in the same format as Windows uses, so you can 
share the same code in Windows apps and DOS apps.

It's only a 16 bit extender, so you're still stuck with 64K segments.  
That's the only major negative I've seen so far.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca