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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 23:06:02 -0800
To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
From: Gene Buckle <geneb AT deltasoft DOT com>
Subject: Re: [opendos] First time...
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At 01:56 AM 1/18/97 +0100, Mark Habersack wrote:
>Once upon a time (on 16 Jan 97 at 22:03) Gene Buckle said:
>
>
>> I'll look into newgrouping these:
>> 
>> comp.os.opendos.advocacy
>> comp.os.opendos.bugs
>> comp.os.opendos.developer
>> comp.os.opendos.gui
>> comp.os.opendos.misc
>> comp.os.opendos.programming.djgpp
>> comp.os.opendos.programming.drivers
>> comp.os.opendos.programming.multitasking
>
>comp.os.opendos.programming.customapi /* For API specific for OpenDOS */
>comp.os.opendos.compatibility
>

Ok.  It may be easier to place them in the alt.os.* heirarchy so we don't
need to do an RFD to get them newgroup'd under the comp. heirarchy.  Thoughts?


>> 
>> No changes need to be made at all for djgpp.  I've even been able to use
>> Allegro with it. *chuckle* (Hey!  Maybe all the problems those folks are
>> having is because they're not running the _Right_ operating system! :) )
>;-)Maybe... Speaking of Allegro. Do the examples that use timers run OK
under 
>OpenDOS multitasker? They cause Windoze to choke.
>

If memory serves, there should be no problem.  I can't easily test right
now because I'm waiting for another machine to built so I can dedicate the
one I'm on now to OpenDOS.

>> 
>> There is no documentation available right now.  I'm hoping to get a
>> pre-release draft of the EMM386 API docs soon, so people can start working
>> magic once OpenDOS is released next week.
>Excellent! I hope the sources will be well-documented - that will be 
>sufficient to do anything with OpenDOS
>

I just went digging through the EMM386 sources and they seem very well
documented.  It's 100% assembly, so you better start brushing up. ;)

DPMS is version 1 as well as VCPI.  (from notes in the code)

g.