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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 09:52:50 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: how to allocate DMA pages ?
In-Reply-To: <3122c38a.sandmann@clio.rice.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960218095054.28845M-100000@is>
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On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> right now.  The bad news is that I never bothered to implement it for 
> CWSDPMI (see all the bad things I never tell you about ;-) so you must
> use the XMS type solution (if you need LOTS of DMA buffers) or DOS memory
> if you can get by with it, or use something more professional :-)

That is true when running CWSDPMI on a pure DOS system, but when a memory 
manager like EMM386 or QEMM is installed, isn't it true that VDS is 
served by that manager?  AFAIK, every memory manager out there supports 
the VDS API nowadays.

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