Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 11:24:44 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Simon DOT zalar AT guest DOT arnes DOT si
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: How does it work?
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On Tue, 28 Oct 1997 Simon DOT zalar AT guest DOT arnes DOT si wrote:

> I would like to know how to run a program written with DJGPP under DOS.
> Is there anything quicker and easyer than DPMI server?

DJGPP will NOT run without DPMI, period.

> How did they do it with Quake?

They use CWSDPMI, of course, since Quake is compiled with DJGPP.

> I made a proggy that counts from 1 to 10.000 and ran it on win95.
> It took it 9 sec.  I wrote the same program with Qbasic and it
> took only 4.5 sec. Where is the catch?

Write a faster program ;-).

But seriously: are you sure those seconds don't just count the load 
time?  If so, they are totally irrelevant, I think, since a real-world 
program will make load time insignificant.