Date:	Wed, 17 Mar 93 09:51:23 EST
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To:	hdj AT dfm DOT dth DOT dk
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: djgpp and DPMI

>I thought the reason that djgpp doesn't work with Windows is that it
>only provides 16 bit support?

DPMI 1.0 adds more virtual memory features, like the ability to map
memory at 0x7fffffff (the stack) and handle page faults and such.
DPMI 0.9 assumes that when you create a segment of size N, you are
going to use all N bytes of it.  Thus, you can't make a segment of
size 0x7fffffff.

DJ

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