From: Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP+Allegro: Porting from DOS to Linux.  Easy or Hard!?!
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 17:58:33 -0400
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firewind wrote:
> No, DPMI is associated with all -DOS- 32 bit protected mode compilers. DPMI
> stands for DOS Protected Mode Interface, after all. -Protected mode- is
> associated with all 32-bit PM compilers, but how this is implimented and
> used can and does vary. Under Linux everything is running 32-bits already,
> the kernel, the compiler, the libraries, etc, etc, so no DPMI-ish thing is
> required.
that is what I meant by "native" DPMI under linux. (Maybe I should be
more specific...or clear. whatever.)
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