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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:03:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
Reply-To: pierre AT tycho DOT com
cc: opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
In-Reply-To: <199704220938.LAA05084@math.amu.edu.pl>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970422130006.19094A-100000@55-174.hy.cgocable.ca>
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:

> > provide buggy DPMI services, but it is version 0.9 if I remember right...
> Maybe... I don't use it anyway. CWSDPMI is much better. Anyhow, EMM is a 
> pmode server as it provides VCPI services to the system.

Yes, but I was only thinking about DPMI... EMM386 runs all the time (i.e.:
it's not REALLY a TSR), it doesn't exit, but starts a V86 task for the
computer to run in... Odd... Made me think about the old versions of
SmartDrive that ran in "Voodoo mode" (AKA "flat real mode")...

Pierre Phaneuf


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