Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 09:11:43 +0100 (BST)
From: Shawn Hargreaves <slh100 AT unix DOT york DOT ac DOT uk>
To: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: DJGPP AT DELORIE DOT COM
Subject: Re: djgpp 2 DPMI
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On Mon, 13 May 1996, A.Appleyard wrote:

>   What is the progress of making (programs compiled and assembled and 
> linked by djgpp v2) fully portable and independent of any faults or 
> absence of whatever DPMI is in the PC that it is run on? One way might 

I think you are missing the point. It's not possible to avoid the DPMI 
on the machine. That is the whole reason DPMI was required in the first 
place: if an OS is running in protected mode, you can't have apps going 
in and messing about with protected mode stuff themselves. They _have_ to 
do things via the OS, there is no way round that. It's what 'protected' 
means :-)


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