From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Is DOS dead? Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <38C7D12E DOT 1E12 AT gmx DOT net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 40 X-Trace: +r2abgDYBiAGaRuNlxZncPt7SzsYZW2bfzHc7jxzhesIVyB8n2SYbWzNCeEQo7liXSxt3qqZwc1T!QeNP/+DdpD10792ug5iHBeBy6ha6BIjvNCjTCZTmmQ9fI43z4BejDBw56DFOdCX86ZKk5vVbPMfe!cz3BXw0= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 21:54:38 GMT Distribution: world Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 21:54:38 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:28:30 +0100, Michael Tippach wrote: >Damian Yerrick wrote: >> >> Microsoft Corp. wants to kill the MS-DOS system so bad, it refuses to >> fix bugs in its Windows NT virtual DOS machine. There are a _lot_ of >> bugs in its DPMI server (as evidenced by threads in >> comp.os.msdos.djgpp), and the Windows 2000 system still does not fix >> them. >> 1. DJGPP's method of handling signals (cause an intentional GPF) >> trips up NT. > >Depending on the DPMI host, DJGPP's sub- optimal method of handling >signals, altering the DS- (but implicitely also the SS-) segment limit, >can generate a stack fault instead. Generally, pulling away one's own >stack is not a particularly smart thing to do and destined to fail under >virtually any CPL 0 DPMI host anyway. There are better ways. If you know any better ways, tell us. (DJGPP NG added) >Still does not invalidate your point that the NTVDM DPMI server is >fundamentally flawed. > >> 2. There is no support for VESA or VBE/AF. > >There is support for VBE. There is no (AFAIR) support though for linear >frame buffer use, >due to DPMI function 0x800 always failing under NT. Dumb stupid Microsoft, why are you so dumb and stupid? -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/