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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:14:24 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
wrote:

>Michael Tippach wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Any idea why NT doesn't implement function 0x800?

For protection perhaps, so programs don't overwrite the NT kernel?
Or can that be done with MMU paging?

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