Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 13:36:23 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: David Beck <beck AT mail DOT matav DOT hu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP 32-bit question
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, David Beck wrote:

> ( Anyway, why do we protect the memory if there is
>   only one process ? ;).

Who says so?  What about all the TSRs and device drivers that are sitting 
in memory and doing their things behind the scenes? or Emacs from which I 
just spawned a compiler to run? or DOS itself? or a memory-mapped storage 
device?  Do we want their memory to be overwritten by a program who went 
amok?

> My question is that, is it possible to make a DOS 
> extender ( or modify some existing ), to support
> multithreading or I missed something ?

The FAQ points you to such a package in section 22.2.  Another package 
(LWP) was announced today on this news group.