Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:47:15 EST
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT athena DOT ctron DOT com>
To: pynq AT midway DOT uchicago DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Beef on djgpp within windows

>It's not like DJ doesn't make it clear 18 ways from sundown in the
>various READMEs that it don't work under Windoze...

>Anyway, on another note, it don't work under OS/2 for the same reasons,

Here's the official beef:

Go32 (djgpp's extender) COULD be modified to support DPMI 1.0 as a
mechanism for dealing with protected mode.  From what I hear, OS/2
2.0, Borland BCC, and 386MAX 6.1 all provide DPMI 1.0 services.
However, I currently (due to other projects) do not have TIME to add
DPMI 1.0 support, nor do I have any of the above software with which
to test such support.

As for Windows, it DOES NOT PROVIDE DPMI 1.0 services at all.  In
fact, it doesn't really provide a proper set of DPMI 0.9 services.
Thus, even if someone were to go through the motions of adding DPMI
1.0 support to go32, it still wouldn't run under Windows.

Maybe I should save this message for later queries? :-)

DJ
dj AT ctron DOT com
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