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> I have an answer to that, but I'm unsure if it's completely correct.
> I'd hope that DJ or Sandmann could clarify.  Is it possible to do
> that under Windows?  How about DOS?  And, if the DPMI host stays
> resident under DOS, how would that affect the use of programs which
> use a different DPMI host, such as OW which uses a DPMI host and DOS
> Extender?

AFAIK, all allocated memory is freed when the client terminates.
There are a few shared memory calls in DPMI 1.0 (i.e. "unimplemented
by most DPMI hosts") but even those say they're freed when the client
terminates.