From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT NO DOT SPAM DOT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: CWSDPMI: what all does it do? (was: Commercial Games)
Date:	Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:15:49 +0000
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David Jenkins wrote:
> 
> >
> >CWSDPMI is *NOT* needed or used under Windows (95). Windows itself
> >provides DPMI, and thus CWSDPMI need not be loaded.
> 
> Is there any way to turn Win95's DPMI off??

Nope.  In fact, doing so would probably cause all sorts of problems for
Win95 applications.

Besides, the only major differences between Win95's DPMI and cwsdpmi are
that cwsdpmi supports a couple of the more useful DPMI 1.0 functions
(NULL pointer protection and memory-mapped devices), and lets you have
more virtual memory than Win95.

In principle, you should never rely on your users having any particular
DPMI host.

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