Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!microsoft!alistair
From: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Can you do graphics in OS/2 without using PM?
Message-ID: <54030@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 23:35:44 GMT
References: <28236@cup.portal.com> <28655@cup.portal.com> <54012@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
Lines: 16

Further to this, Microsoft, Intel and many other industry leaders,
including the well-known DOS extender companies got together recently to
resolve the problems in current DOS-extender technologies.

Micrsoft has backed the resulting proposed DPMI standard, (Dos 
Protect Mode Interface) and has stated that DPMI applications
will be supported under a future version of Windows and a future
version of OS/2.

As Gordon Letwin stated, VCPI is technically inedaquate to satisfy
our customer's stated requirements. DPMI enables the same important
features as VCPI, and will be supported in Microsoft's operating systems.

Alistair Banks
OS/2 Group
Microsoft