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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DPMI Server
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 20:53:07 CST
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> I'm having trouble finding a DPMI server. I got CWSDPMI beta 6 from
> ftp.idsoftware.com, but it takes up 50K(!!) of memory, and that's WAY too
> big for me. It also doesn't support 16 bit apps, ie ED209.

Problem 1 - if you run a 16-bit DPMI app you cannot shell out to a 32-bit
DPMI app - this is against the DPMI rules.  Since nested DPMI apps share
the same IDT, you can't mix 16-bit and 32-bit.  The only way around this
is a DPMI 1.0 server - you could buy 386MAX.

Problem 2 - to get a significantly smaller memory footprint you will
have to run under Windows (or OS/2 or something else) to decrease the
memory footprint (at least until Morten finishes his server ;-)