Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 11:51:25 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Kelly Harrelson wrote:

> Is there a faster platform to run DJGPP executables under other than plain
> DOS?  What about some of the boot kernel tools that are available?

DJGPP executables call DOS functions to do I/O and other OS-related
tasks.  So you need either DOS or its clone to run DJGPP programs.  A
program that avoids calling DOS is by definition not a DJGPP program
but an entirely different beast.