From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Environment variables, and command line option's.
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 11:24:41 CDT
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> : (the DPMI spec prohibits mixing 16-bit and 32-bit DPMI clients in the 
> : same session) 

This is a limit of DPMI 0.9 servers.  A true DPMI 1.0 implementation would
not have this limitation.

> All we have to do is wait for the perfect DPMI server (or write our own).

What used to be 386MAX release 8 (or MAX8 or whatever) provided a 
DPMI 1.0 server, if you want to try to find an old copy someplace.  
So an excellent server exists, but so few people bought it you can't
find it anymore... But that's only an option for DOS.  The majority 
of DJGPP users now run with an alternate OS that doesn't allow 
replacement of the DPMI provider (such as Windows).