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Subject: | Re: Is DOS dead? |
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:14:24 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote: >Michael Tippach wrote: >> There is support for VBE. There is no (AFAIR) support though for linear >> frame buffer use, due to DPMI function 0x800 always failing under NT. > >Any idea why NT doesn't implement function 0x800? For protection perhaps, so programs don't overwrite the NT kernel? Or can that be done with MMU paging? -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/
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