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Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:03:14 -0400
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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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	(message from Rugxulo on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:42:28 -0700 (PDT))
Subject:	Re: demand loaded?
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> Was this due to XMS and VCPI used in v1 being less stringent or just
> that DPMI 0.9 lacks some things that DPMI 1.0 has (which you avoided
> requiring for compatibility)?

DPMI 0.9 is the basis for 286-based CPUs.  Yes, it's old, but that's
what most providers implement.  There just isn't any support in 0.9
for demand paged loading; the callbacks are all missing.

With djgpp 1.x we had access to the exception handling so we could
manage the paging ourselves.  DPMI 1.0 offers that, but we can't rely
on it.

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