To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT new-orleans DOT neosoft DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Virtual memory and DPMI (and Win 3.1) 
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 17:38:49 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> Question for you guys:  What are the reasons for not just disabling 
> QDPMI outright?

Mine are very prosaic: I use BC occasionally, and I hate their DPMI
host, which gets loaded by every Borland's program (bcc, make, etc.).
This slows down compilations, because I have resident antivirus loaded
(this is at my workplace).  Yes, I know about DPMIRES which allows to
install DPMI support residently, but it gobbles a preposterously large
amount of memory: more than 50K!  So I switched to QDPMI.

> Please send me the "must have" features to be able to replace QDPMI.

I suppose any DPMI server which can live with QEMM, will support BC,
can be loaded once, and doesn't take too much RAM, is OK with me.