Re: DOS Protected Mode Interface

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From: Randall Atkinson
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 14:00

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In article <9106180040.AA26036@chinle.utah.edu>, 
	Galen Hunt <gchunt%chinle@cs.utah.edu> writes:
% Does anyone know where I can get information on the DPMI standard. 

In article <1991Jun18.115842.11193@cm.cf.ac.uk>, 
	Robert Hartill <rhl@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk> writes:

> What's DPMI ?, Dos Protected Mode I*  ?

DPMI == DOS Protected Mode Interface

  The 0.9 version was released about 1 year ago and should be
obtainable immediately from your local Intel (the folks who designed
the 80x86 chips) representative.  

  The 1.0 version was just completed and it might take your Intel rep
a little longer to get a copy of that.  I don't think the differences
are major and I've heard rumours that 1.0 is a proper superset of 0.9
(take that with the usual amount of salt).

  Windows/386 v3.0 protected mode uses DPMI 0.9, but v3.1 will likely
use DPMI 1.0 instead.

  The DPMI specs aren't large documents, but they are copyrighted so
it is illegal for anyone to email anyone else a copy of it or put it
out for ftp.  If anyone from Intel is listening, please consider
making the 1.0 spec available from somewhere via anonymous ftp
(Simtel20 would be a good choice).

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