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From: "Charles Sandmann" <cwsdpmi AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Compiling Desqview/X "qdlib200 & qdtkt200" sources with DJGPP 2.03
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"DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote in message 
news:201105092034 DOT p49KYRmA016966 AT delorie DOT com...
>
>> Direct access to certain addresses in DOS memory, AFAIR.
>
> We still have the ability to do that.  IIRC it was the
> page-fault-mapped graphics buffer that it required, but I would assume
> the X server would need that, not the clients.

I wrote an add-in extension for DPMI 1.0 hosts (and CWSDPMI) that
supported the page-fault-mapped graphics, but there was no interest
(world had moved to linear mapped frame buffers).

Yes, a long time ago. 


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