From: Joe Huffman <joe AT proto DOT COM>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Microsoft and DPMI.
Cc: joe AT proto DOT COM
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 92 9:24:50 PDT

>From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
>
>NT does not provide the proper interface to allow go32 to interface
>with it, no matter how much time you spent porting.  The only way to
>get gcc running under NT is to build it with NT's compiler.  Same for
>emacs.  djgpp is strictly for DOS and DESQview.  Note that is
>Microsoft comes to their senses and decides to support DPMI 1.0, it
>will become feasible to port go32 to windows.

I was talking to a "Windows Technical Evanglist" at MS a few days ago.  
DPMI 0.9 is "a low priority" for NT.  And, "DPMI 1.0 may not even be 
possible under NT".  I really don't trust MS with anything they do.  They
pushed OS/2 so strongly for years, then rammed DPMI 0.9 down our throats
(actually it was a Windows 3.0 approximation of DPMI 0.9).  Now they are
telling us DPMI is obsolute and the future is NT.

-joe-