Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 17:52:22 CST
From: "Jeremy Mathers" <pynq AT midway DOT uchicago DOT edu>
To: A8411GAC AT helios DOT edvz DOT univie DOT ac DOT at
Subject: Re:  Why not DPMI ?
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu


>Hi,

>why NOT DPMI support in DJGPP ?
>The DPMI standard 1.0 is available (ie QDPMI by Quarterdeck), and a working
>DPMI interface would make life much easier for GO32.
>Also concurrent processes could be implemented, each one with his own
>memory space.

My understanding is that QDPMI only supports DPMI 0.9.  However, I can't
imagine it would be hard for them (QOS) to support 1.0.   Incidentally,
does anyone know what level of DPMI 386MAX supports?

GO32 will, eventually, become DPMI 1.0 compatible.  Although I have
nothing to contribute to make it so, I feel the pressure of the
marketplace is going to force this to happen eventually.  When this
happens, GO32 will become compatible with OS/2 and (when QOS does the
move suggested in the paragraph prior) with QEMM/QDPMI.

Unfortunately, the Windoze crybabies will still be out of luck as
Windoze is only DPMI 0.9 compatible, and I have seen nothing that
indicates this is likely to change.