Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/12/08/12:21:29
Gecko23:
> Well, this would be possible under a multi-tasking DPMI host, but
> neither CWSDPMI or the DPMI emulation under win32 provide this kind of
> functionality.
As for running 2 .EXEs "at the same time" Win32 seems to fit - hum, even
Win 3.1, isn't it ?
> AFAIK, there are no free multi-tasking DPMI servers available, in fact
> the only one I can think of at all is OS/2, but thats more than just a
> DPMI server. :)
What about DR-DOS that you can d'load, that provides multitasking _and_
in its la(tes)t version 7.03 a fully 32-bit DPMI server ?...
> Unfortunately, DPMI arrived too late on the scene, and DOS was rapidly
> eclipsed by Windows, so developments in that area have been stagnant
> for a long, long time. (with the exception of CWSDPMI of course)
... and DR-DOS - which BTW has restarted to stagnate after jan-1999 :-\.
> There is of course nothing preventing you from writing a multi-tasking
> DPMI server, but that's going to be a big job.
If you read the ~250 KB html documentation of DR-DOS multi+dpmi API it seems
indeed a fair load of work to create...
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