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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: OS/2, Windows, & DPMI ( was Re: OS/2 2.1 specifications, release date.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.022758.25708@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <pathak-191292160902@virtual.mitre.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:27:58 GMT
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- pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak) writes:
- : In article <1gt426INNf74@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A.
- : Bell) wrote:
- : >
- : >
- : > Saying that windows 3.1 was not a strict implimentation of the dpmi specs
- : > is an understatement. It was in direct violation of them. Which is ironic
- : > because microsoft developed the specs to begin with.
- : >
- : > The way dpmi should work is that any dpmi program should check to see if
- : > there was any dpmi server running, and if so, allow it to allocate the
- : > memory. This way, more than one dpmi program could be run at the same time.
- : > Windows 3.1 refuses to allow any other dpmi memory server but it's own.
- : >
- :
- : Could there be any legitimate reason for this type of behaviour or is MS
- : trying to prevent other people's software from working correctly with
- : Windows? If the reason is the later, it would seem yet another item for
- : the FTC.....
-
- Can't think of a single one.
- :
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-
- Interesting tag - do you have a date for it? I ask because:
-
- 'We face an eternity of introspection, when all through history we
- have never known what to do with ourselves on a rainy Sunday.' Isaac
- Asimov, The Last Trump 1955. (Funnily enough, I just reread it a
- couple of days ago, which I guess is why your tag rang a bell)
-
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
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