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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!prism!gt0040a
  2. From: gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
  4. Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 specifications, release date.
  5. Message-ID: <78821@hydra.gatech.EDU>
  6. Date: 26 Dec 92 02:31:45 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec15.051411.5732@umr.edu> <1992Dec16.142447.5318@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <1992Dec16.161007.23234@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1992Dec22.213657.23840@mercury.ncat.edu> <1992Dec23.233415.4712@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
  8. Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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  11. In <1992Dec23.233415.4712@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:
  12.  
  13. >I'm sorry I started this sub-thread, because I made a mistake in my
  14. >question:  I was wondering if OS/2 DOS windows would support
  15. >VCPI, not DPMI.
  16.  
  17. Not possible- VCPI wants control of the entire system- including the ability
  18. to pop the CPU in and out of protected mode. I doubt OS/2 would appreciate
  19. a program poping the CPU into real mode...
  20.        Tom Sorensen
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  24. Tom Sorensen              gt0040a@prism.gatech.edu
  25. "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system,
  26. and possibly program, of all time." - Bill Gates, November, 1987
  27.