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- From: elliott@lmt.mn.org (David Elliott MIS x 363)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Enhanced Mode???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.194707.3242@lmt.mn.org>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 19:47:07 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.183949.21569@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan01.203427.18379@rose.com> victor.ng@rose.com (victor ng) writes:
- > >I was just wondering how OS/2 now support 386 Enhanced mode Windows
- > >apps if this compromises system integrity like so many people have
- > >said in the past.
- >
- > An excellent question, one which I'm still investigating.
- >
- > All I know is that Mathematica for Windows now works. :-)
- >
- The critical distinction, I'm told, is that OS/2 does not "run Windows
- in enhanced mode", but rather "runs programs that require enhanced mode".
- It does this by supplying a DLL containing the necessary Enhanced mode
- entry points and mapping them into nice, wholesome OS/2 calls. :-)
- (This info is only what I've been told; I have not verified it personally.
- However, it was an IBMer who made the distinction for me.)
- --
- Elliott | "I think I'll kill myself," Sue Sighed. | #pragma(disclaim)
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- davide@ramrod.lmt.mn.org | There were seven dwarves in the tub, all
- elliott@dunky.lmt.mn.org | feeling happy. So he got out.
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