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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: msc 6.0 problems
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Date: 11 Apr 90 04:43:14 GMT
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Eugene Wang <eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu> writes:
> Why are we assumming that this is Quarterdeck/Qualitas' problems. What
> has Microsoft done to make HIMEM.SYS incompatible?  Quarterdeck and Qualitas
> essentially make the only commercial extended memory managers around, and to
> have MSC 6.0 incompatible with BOTH of them?  I think Quarterdeck,
> Qualitas AND Microsoft should work out a solution. The problem should be
> Microsoft's. They know it's incompatible and what have they done? 

Well, here's the answer, from comp.os.os2:

Alistair Banks <alistair@microsoft.UUCP> writes:
# 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

I think we can assume from this that Quarterdeck will release a new
version of QEMM/386 which *will* work with the new HIMEM.SYS, Windows
3.0 (next month) and OS/2 2.0 (or possibly a later version).

Let's not spout at Microsoft without knowing all the facts...

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