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From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: Running the test program
Date: 14 Apr 1996 07:49:54 GMT
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> To learn about DPMI, I recommend the book Extending DOS, 2nd edition.

No offense, but I find these book references extremely unhelpful.
Libraries do not carry books more recent than decades old, usually, and
rarely many computer books at all. If so they're just the "... for dummies"
series.
Nor does everyone who reads this happen to have the spare cash to go to a
store and buy a $20-30 book every time they want a question answered about
something. (Nor is it usually easy to find a book: the poor asker of the
question, assuming he's well to do at all, will probably have to spend
hours searching book and computer stores up and down his city looking for
this thing, and if he is in a small town he's probably SOL right there.)

I'm sure there are references and works and info on DPMI on the Web that
could be pointed to, that are much more accessible (since he obviously has
Usenet capability), and more convenient, as free or cheap as his usenet is,
and reasonably comprehensive especially as the topic is computer related.

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         -- B. Mandelbrot  |  Paul Derbyshire (PGD) ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca