Message-Id:	<199612300146.CAA29496@math.amu.edu.pl>
Comments:	Authenticated sender is <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
From:	"Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Organization:	Home, sweet home (Poznan, Poland)
To:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 30 Dec 1996 02:45:52 +0100
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: DPMI incorporation...
Reply-to:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl

Once upon a time (on 28 Dec 96 at 21:57) DJ Delorie said:

> DPMI 0.9 (Windows, OS/2, QEMM) does NOT support the paging
> functions. There is nothing in the DPMI 0.9 API that suggests that
> paging must be supported, or that virtual memory will be available.
And what about the 0x0602 -- 0x0604 and 0x0702, 0x0703 functions? The 
DPMI 0.9 specification says they have to be supported by a server to 
be fully 0.9 compatible. If the functions are part of the 
specification then any DPMI client CAN rely on them without thinking 
whether they are available in this or that server - and that means 
286-compliant servers would have to implement them. But how? 286 
hardware does not support pages.

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We buy fresh bagels from the corner store where swastikas
are spat from areosols. I sit in the bar sipping iced white
russians, trying to score but nobody's pushing. And everyone
looks at everyone's faces, searching for signs and praying
for traces of a conscience in residence, are we sitting on
a barbed wire fence chasing the clouds home?

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