Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 19:10:05 -0500
Message-Id: <199612280010.TAA01473@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <199612272249.XAA13864@math.amu.edu.pl>
	(grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl)
Subject: Re: DPMI incorporation...


> DPMI was designed for i386+ only and it would never run on iAPX286- 
> machines.

Not true.  See http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/dpmi/ch4.1.html where
it states "0=16-bit application" and "if running on an 80386 or
later".  DPMI supports 80286 and higher processors.  However, it only
supports the 32-bit operations on 32-bit processors (of course)

> DPMI heavily relies on features found only in i386+ machines (like
> paged memory).

Not true. Even the DPMI in Windows95 doesn't support the paged memory
functions of DPMI 1.0.