From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 06/02/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: dosemu and windows
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 12:25:17 GMT

In article <1993Jun2.060846.46405@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON) writes:
>Good point. If this project is possible - it would be tremendous. There are
>some serious applications I would love to run without re-booting into DOS,
>like Maple. That one might take a while, though, since it's ``protected mode''.

If anything, protected mode should be far easier under a WABI arrangement:
protected MSWin programs are not supposed to manipulate memory directly but
use API calls, so you wouldn't need to try to virtualize protected mode. I
wouldn't be surprised to find that MS is enforcing that in vaporNT... (If they
aren't then it'll *never* be completely stable.)

++Brandon 

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