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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: Did PKWare fix that famous 486 bug?
- Message-ID: <rdippold.726537472@cancun>
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
- References: <bontchev.726428688@fbihh> <3562@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:57:52 GMT
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- nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
- >In <bontchev.726428688@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
- >>mine, so I am unable to check, but what the heck is the option '-('
-
- >:-) (or should that be :-( ). The -( options diables DPMI support. Many
- >of the bugs seem to be there (not all unfortunately). This is important
- >on 386/486 systems running QEMM, Windows or OS/2.
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- Almost... actually DPMI disable is "-)". "-(" uses "Slow MemCopy". I
- assume that this is so you can force it not to DMA even if their
- workarounds don't work.
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