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- From: lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.193002.0204801@locus.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:30:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.201454.20862@microsoft.com> <1992Dec28.235054.0201318@locus.com> <29DEC199210143369@moose.cccs.umn.edu>
- Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
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- In article <29DEC199210143369@moose.cccs.umn.edu> rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec28.235054.0201318@locus.com>, lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison) writes:
- >> For this reason, I feel that if these reports are true (and I know that
- >> Windows 3.1 violates the DPMI standards promilgated by MS from other
- >> reliable sources), I can indeed blame MS.
- >
- >My impression was that the problem is that Windows doesn't impliment the entire
- >DPMI standard, not that it doesn't conform to the standard.
- >
- >--rick
- >
- One of our divisions has Windows running under DOS emulation on a Unix host,
- we can't easily use 386 enhanced mode, because the kludge in windows
- violates the DPMI standard considerably. This information was released
- at a Unix conference, and a synopsis posted here by some other kind person.
-
- It is not that it does not completely impliment DPMI, but Violates the
- standard. Since DR-DOS follows the standard, Windows is unreliable on
- DR-DOS or any other DOS emulator as a platform when you need to use the
- 386 enhanced mode.
-