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From: ahd@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: QEMM386/Windows config question
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.181203.10855@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 90 18:12:03 GMT
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From article <9140@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, by pilger@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Eric Pilger):
> In article <1990Aug29.114402.7527@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>>Get a clue, Eric.  You're bitching at Microsoft because Windows 3.0 doesn't
>>work well with QEMM/386 without understanding *WHY* Microsoft uses DPMI
>>instead of VCPI.
> 
> I understand Microsoft uses DPMI because it meets its own agenda.

And what is their own agenda?  Your comment doesn't answer the question,
because its own agenda is defined by the business case, etc.  Also,
doesn't it match your agenda?

Drew Derbyshire

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