Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/07/28/13:43:06
David Jenkins <me AT jenkinsdavid DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> writes:
> Just curious about this one. Its been puzzling me for a while.
> I've sent a few .exe files to a friend who uses Win3.11.
> Isn't Win3.11 16 bit only??
> How come he can run my 32bit programs??
DOS is also a 16 bit only OS, but DJGPP uses a DPMI as a DOS extender. Any
decent DPMI can do 32 bit stuff, even the one included in Win3.x (which is
strange, it'll let you run 32 bit DOS programs, but only 16 bit Windows
programs, all from a 2 bit OS ;)
(2 bit meaning cheap, not 2/8ths of one byte per register)
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