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- From: paulb@harlqn.co.uk (Paul Butcher)
- Subject: Re: What's the abbreviation DPMI ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.134341.16367@harlqn.co.uk>
- Sender: news@harlqn.co.uk (Usenet News Account)
- Organization: Harlequin Ltd, Cambridge, UK
- References: <1ih23pINNe0k@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:43:41 GMT
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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?
- >
- >
- >Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
-
- DPMI stands for "Dos Protected Mode Interface". It's a means by which
- DOS programs can cooperate in using 386 features (e.g. virtual memory,
- virtual 8086 processors etc.).
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- I believe the first program to offer DPMI support was Windows 3.0, but
- others now do so as well.
-
- It supercedes an earlier standard called VCPI (Virtual Control Program
- Interface) which performed a similar function.
-
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