From: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP+Allegro: Porting from DOS to Linux.  Easy or Hard!?!
Date: 8 Oct 1997 02:12:41 GMT
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Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org> wrote:

> The DPMI stuff is not asociated with DJGPP, it is associated with all 32
> bit protected mode compilers. DPMI is "native" under LINUX, and you
> won't have those problems anyways, since you only use C functions.

No, DPMI is associated with all -DOS- 32 bit protected mode compilers. DPMI
stands for DOS Protected Mode Interface, after all. -Protected mode- is
associated with all 32-bit PM compilers, but how this is implimented and
used can and does vary. Under Linux everything is running 32-bits already,
the kernel, the compiler, the libraries, etc, etc, so no DPMI-ish thing is
required.

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