Subject: DPMI and Windoze (or "Post RTFM-ing QDPMI Blues") To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJ's GPP mailing list) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 12:03:29 EST From: Stephen Turnbull I noticed that a couple of people tested DPMI for the combination Windoze & QEMM. Note that (according to the docs with QDPMI) QDPMI will step into the background when it sees Windoze's DPMI server start up. > > Microsoft Windows version 3.1 includes its own DPMI host. When QDPMI sees > Windows Enhanced Mode start up, it steps aside, letting Windows provide the > DPMI services for programs running in its environment. > (Any DPMI server---except of course Windoze---will presumably defer to a preexisting host. What QDPMI's docs say is that it will defer to Windoze if Windoze starts up *after* QDPMI.) Unless they plan to change this in future releases, this may mean that you can't get DPMI ver. >0.9 until MicroSoft supports it. Is this a correct analysis? I don't know how to test it. I apologize for raining on the parade of all the Windows developers who like DJGPP. Does anyone know what 386MAX does in this situation? -- Stephen Turnbull The Ohio State University, Department of Economics 410 Arps Hall, 1945 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43210-1172 USA Phone: (614) 292-0654 Fax: ...-3906 Email: turnbull DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu