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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:58:37 +1100
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: generating 16-bit code (286 and lower)
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Organization: Tait Electronics Limited
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On 25 Aug 97 at 14:46, Esa A E Peuha wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:51:13 in article
> <33f47af1 DOT sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> Charles Sandmann
> <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote:
> : But with DPMI readily available in many systems already, improving
> : CWSDPMI looks like a marginal use of time.  
> 
> It's still important to have a free DPMI host with sources available
> (I need it, even if no one else does :-)

Not only that, but how many other DPMI providers have null pointer 
support?:) Also, deadbeef doesn't always work under windows.

Anyway, those other dpmi providers are second rate at best (except 
maybe linux), so impoving cwsdpmi would be making the best even 
better.

Bill
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Leave others their otherness.

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