Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/20/05:43:18
On 20 Feb 1997, George Foot wrote:
> Tudor (tudor AT cam DOT org) wrote:
> : The DJGPP v2 uses CWSDPMI which is a dos extender that gives you DPMI
> : support.
> ...
> : CWSDPMI is similar to Pmode, dos4gw etc.
>
> I know this is pretty irrelevant, but what exactly is the definition of a
> Dos extender? I thought that go32 was a dos extender, as is DOS4GW, but
> that CWSDPMI was simply a DPMI host. Is CWSDPMI a Dos extender then,
> strictly speaking?
You are right, CWSDPMI is NOT a DOS extender, it's only a DPMI server.
All the rest of the stuff that belongs to the extender is in the DJGPP C
library and in the startup code.
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