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From: "Ron Grunwald" <RGRUNWAL AT wasp DOT cs DOT cowan DOT edu DOT au>
Organization: Edith Cowan University
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 17:18:37 GMT+800
Subject: Re: QEMM's VM manager and V2.0
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Eli wrote:
> The problem isn't in go32 code

I suspected this after I sent the mail message, and I was going to 
ask whether it could perhaps be QEMM's fault. Thanks for confirming 
this.

> it's just that QDPMI doesn't
> provide virtual memory even if you turn it ON.  This has been
> reported to Quarterdeck quite awhile ago, but even the latest
> version of QEMM (7.50 patch 2) doesn't correct that bug.
> 
> DJGPP v2.0 will come with a free DPMI host called CWSDPMI,

That's fantastic news! I've been waiting for an alternative DPMI host 
for so long.

> so
> if you really need virtual memory, you could use CWSDPMI, if
> QDPMI isn't fixed by that time.
> 


Regards, Ron.


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