From: robin AT redwing DOT force9 DOT co DOT uk (rob)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DPMI with physical memory > 256 MB
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:04:25 GMT
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:24:54 -0700, "Hooman Katirai"
<hkatirai AT netpart DOT com> wrote:

OS/2 has built-in DPMI 1.0 support, and this is configurable up to
512MB.  I don't know how much of this can be physical RAM - the DPMI
documentation is very basic.

HTH,

rob

>I will be writing an application shortly that requires > 256 MB of memory --
>probably around 512 MB of physical + some swap. Does anyone know of a DPMI
>manager compatible with DJGPP, and preferably free,  that can be used for
>this application?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Hooman
>