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- From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
- Subject: Re: DPMI (Re: pkz204c.exe is available)
- References: <rdippold.726458908@cancun> <726519334snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan10.220906.14954@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1993Jan11.123715.10856@cs.tcd.ie> <C0p9DK.HME@SSD.intel.com>
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- Organization: UIUC SCS
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:59:25 GMT
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- In article <C0p9DK.HME@SSD.intel.com> jkearns@ssd.intel.com (Jerry Kearns) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan11.123715.10856@cs.tcd.ie>, dherity@cs.tcd.ie (Herity D.) writes:
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- >A PC running DOS can be "used as a 386", i.e., run in 386 mode, without using
- >DPMI. DPMI is a multitasking spec (replacing VCPI), used by programs like
- >MS Windows and DESQview.
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- DPMI can supplement VCPI but cannot "replace" it. There are things
- that can be done with VCPI that are impossible with DPMI. It would be
- easy to fix the DPMI spec, but this has not been done.
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- Doug McDonald
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