From: "Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject: Re: allegro gone missing?
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Michael Abbott aka frEk <20014670 AT snetch DOT cpg DOT com DOT au> wrote in message
news:38017074 DOT 2CD4C00 AT snetch DOT cpg DOT com DOT au...
> I don't know about everyone else but for speed I usually use Win '95s
> DPMI...

Me too. I find it to be a great deal faster than CWSDPMI.

> For some reason though, the Win95 DPMI doesn't seem to catch as many General
> Protection faults as CWSDPMI which means more bugs to be fixed...

The Windows 95 DPMI server does not catch NULL pointer dereferences. I always
test my programs with both it and CWSDPMI in a clean DOS boot.

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