Date:	Sun, 12 Sep 93 10:40:45 CDT
From:	"Jeremy Mathers" <pynq AT midway DOT uchicago DOT edu>
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	DJGPP & OS/2 - fact or myth?

I'm sure this has been covered in the past (I think I may even have
been the first to observe it...), but:

Confirm or deny:

	Since DJGPP can now use DPMI memory, it can now, theoretically,
	be used in a DOS box under OS/2.  However, since the DPMI usage
	requires a minimum of 5M of memory on startup and since,
	IMHO&LE, one rarely has that much free (physical) memory available
	on an OS/2 machine, the net result is that you cannot use DJGPP
	under OS/2.

Regarding the memory, it seems that somehow, the OS manages to suck
most of it up for one reason or another.  One of my home machines has
16M of memory and only a few small windows open, yet when I run a DJGPP
compiled app in a DOS box, it still barfs out, viz:

 (F:\TMP) gzip386
 DPMI: Not enough memory (0x00460000 bytes).

 (F:\TMP)

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