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From: david@metapyr.UUCP (David Relson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Where is Windows 386 3.0?
Message-ID: <922@metapyr.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 90 14:35:50 GMT
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Reply-To: david@metapyr.UUCP (David Relson)
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Organization: Meta Systems, Ltd. -- Ann Arbor, MI
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Microsoft IS going it's own route with DOS extenders.  With C6.0 Microsoft 
brought out its DPMI (Dos Protected Mode Interface) which they say they need
to provide protected mode capabilities needed for multitasking - abilities they
say are not otherwise available.  DPMI is not VCPI compatible, so extended
memory managers like QEMM and 386^MAX cannot be used at the same time.  
To be fair Microsoft does supply HIMEM.SYS, SMARTDRV.SYS, and RAMDRIVE.SYS, but
I'm unhappy at losing my expanded memory capabilities.