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- From: pazsan@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernd Paysan)
- Subject: Re: What's the abbreviation DPMI ?
- References: <1ih23pINNe0k@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Originator: pazsan@hphalle5h.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:10:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.101035.1659@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1ih23pINNe0k@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, DAHMS@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Heribert Dahms) writes:
- |> I have a quite good knowledge about computers, but never heard about "DPMI"
- |> outside this newsgroup, so I what does it mean?
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- DOS Protected Mode Interface. Because MS-DOS is still a non-reentrant real mode
- exception handler (and will be for the next time), some people invented DOS
- Extenders (Phar Lap, Lotus, and even MS-Windows has or is a DOS Extender). They
- decided (hopefully) to standardize the features of their DOS Extenders, which
- resulted in DPMI. If you don't work with DOS, forget it. No other OS is so nasty
- that it needs an extender for actual and widespread machines it supports (er, DOS
- isn't a real OS... don't let you irritate by the letters OS in DOS).
- --
- Bernd Paysan
- "Late answers are wrong answers!"
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