From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se>
Message-Id: <200104240718.JAA02550@lws256.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject: Re: win2000/ntvdm/djgpp (fwd)
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:18:55 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <3AE33D9C.1078.1AC82EC3@localhost> from "The Owl" at Apr 22, 2001 08:22:52 PM
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Thumbs up for an extraordinary debugging work!

> ntvdm:
> 
>   this is ther user mode component of windows that does all the emulation
>   needed by dos (v86), dosx (pm16/pm32), win16 (pm16) apps. it interfaces
>   to the kernel via ntdll (as any other subsystem does) and also has an
>   undocumented interface that can be used by the dos/dosx/win16 apps
>   (based on the debug symbols, the related internal functions are prefixed
>   by 'Bop', no idea what it stands for).

Bop stands for "BIOS OPeration" according to Schulman's, Undocumented
DOS. It's NT's equivalent to WINDOZE 3.x's (and 4.x's) ARPL.


Right,

						MartinS