From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob) Subject: Re: dosemu and windows Date: 2 Jun 1993 04:22:56 GMT
In <1993Jun2.015113.21801@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>In article <100211@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob) writes:
>>I really want somebody to prove me wrong. Rather, somebodies, because it's
>>going to take a lot of people a long time. But until I see someone doing
>>the coding, I will believe it's all just an elaborate jest.
>>Until then, I will continue to develop dosemu as quickly as I can,
>>and perhaps one day find the time to work on VCPI.
>Either you meant DPMI or that was *extreme* gallows humor....
Well, I meant "DPMI and some sort of 286 virtualization." I realize the
problems of VCPI (without knowing all the VCPI details). Remember our
previous conversation about this? However, I was thinking about
386 enhanced mode. I believe some programs require enhanced mode...
Windows in standard mode wouldn't use VCPI or DPMI. However, I'm
not sure exactly what's involved in 286 virtualization. Time
to hit the data books...
The sad fact is that DPMI won't help one single bit with running Windows
3.1. Maybe the improbable Windows 4.0 will be a DPMI client. Maybe
WINOS2 won't require OS/2 features. Maybe Sun will give away Wabi.
--
Robert Sanders
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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