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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Enhanced Mode???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.035012.16365@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 03:50:12 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.183949.21569@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan4.194707.3242@lmt.mn.org>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1993Jan4.194707.3242@lmt.mn.org> elliott@lmt.mn.org (David Elliott MIS x 363) 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.)
-
- I didn't think it was possible, but I'm mighty impressed. Chalk one
- up for OS/2 here, folks -- NT can't do enhanced mode.
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