Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/15/02:26:14
On 14 Apr 1996, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> > To learn about DPMI, I recommend the book Extending DOS, 2nd edition.
>
> No offense, but I find these book references extremely unhelpful.
> Libraries do not carry books more recent than decades old, usually, and
> rarely many computer books at all. If so they're just the "... for dummies"
> series.
The guy asked where could he find some material to learn about DPMI, so I
told him about the only good source I know of that *explains* the
machinery behind the DPMI and protected-mode programming on MS-DOS in
general.
> something. (Nor is it usually easy to find a book: the poor asker of the
> question, assuming he's well to do at all, will probably have to spend
> hours searching book and computer stores up and down his city looking for
> this thing, and if he is in a small town he's probably SOL right there.)
Come on, it's almost year 2000 out there. These days, you don't have to
go to the store and spend hours looking for a book. There are quite a
few companies that make such services available over the Internet. You
can look up any book (even if you know its title and author only
vaguely), order it in less than a minute and have it in your nearest post
office by the end of the week, and for less money than you'd pay in a
bookstore. For an example, check out http://www.amazon.com/.
> I'm sure there are references and works and info on DPMI on the Web that
> could be pointed to, that are much more accessible (since he obviously has
> Usenet capability), and more convenient, as free or cheap as his usenet is,
> and reasonably comprehensive especially as the topic is computer related.
The guy didn't want refrences (the DJGPP FAQ has a pointer to the DPMI
spec); he wanted something that will let him learn to understand the DPMI
environment. This question was asked many times here and nobody came out
to tell about some place on the net where such an info exists. If you
know about such place, please say where it is, and I promise to put it
into the next revision of the FAQ.
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