Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/06/28/22:30:12
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:58:31 -0400, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> sat on
a tribble, which squeaked:
>
>> What the heck is that supposed to mean? In practise, people coding
>> DJGPP stuff use exactly two DPMI hosts (or just one of them): CWSDPMI
>> and Windoze. (What others *are* there, anyway???)
>
>Windows alone has more than one DPMI implementation (no, they don't
>act the same).
If they don't act the same, then they all have quirks by which they
can be *individually* detected.
>dosemu (for linux, which I use)
for running MS-DOS games or something, not DJGPP apps, right? If it's
something you're writing with DJGPP, you could just use stock gcc and
get better performance under linux. The only overlap that I can see as
likely at all is Quake...
>386MAX, QEMM,
>opendos, and OS/2.
Does anyone *use* these obscure operating systems? Every couple of
years I run across a reference to OS/2, that's about it.
>Plus DJGPP comes with not one but two DPMI servers
>- cwsdpmi and pmode (if you download djgpp's unzip32.exe, you're using
>pmode) which act differently (which is why there are two ;).
And can thus be distinguished by an autodetecter.
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