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From: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: RE: Allocate physical memory?
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:15:25 -0000
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Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> As I understand it, cwsdpmi doesn't currently implement VDS, so 
>> this will only work under Windows or some other memory manager.
> 
> That is correct.  IMHO, any serious DOS user should have a memory 
> manager installed (CWSDPMI was never meant to replace one).

But surely in order to provide VDS services, the memory manager would 
have to be the same thing (or at least very closely integrated) with 
the DPMI server? VDS needs the ability to remap pages into specific 
physical memory locations, and then prevent them from being moved until 
the buffer is unlocked, and I don't see how any other memory manager 
could do this while cwsdpmi is active (DJ? Charles? An expert opinion
would be useful here...)

	Shawn Hargreaves.