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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:21:46 +0100 (MET)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
cc: Gene Buckle <geneb AT deltasoft DOT com>,
OpenDOS Mailing List <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] First time...
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On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:

>> Yeah, I think it'd be better. Besides, alt. newsgroups are more, umm..., 
>> 'hackerish' ;-))
>Sorry, I don't want to read any make-money-fast or
>kill-all-<fill_in_a_race_to_discriminate_here>, or other such junkmail
>postings.
Umm... right.

>> > DPMS is version 1 as well as VCPI.  (from notes in the code)
>
>DPMS or DPMI?  I think you meant DPMI.  DPMS is the monitor power
>saver feature.

Not in this case. Here it stands for DOS Protected Mode Services - a wrapper
around the DOS kernel to enable PM applications more efficient use of system
resources.
 
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