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Subject: MS Windows 3.0
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Date: 16 May 91 01:29:47 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 05-05-91 (09:49)              Number: 2116 of 2164 (Echo)
   To: DENNIS RUFFER                 Refer#: 2071
 From: RAY DUNCAN                      Read: NO
 Subj: MS WINDOWS 3.0                Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 I see that you are doing a bunch of mode switching stuff in your
 DPMI-based Forth.  I built a DPMI-based FORTH last year as an experiment
 (mainly to fiddle around with the DPMI interface) and I wonder if you
 are aware that the built-in Windows DOS Extender works in both 16- and
 32-bit mode.  If you just make the initial mode switch telling the DPMI
 server that you are going to run as a 32-bit app, you don't have to do
 all this funny 16/32 bit mode switching stuff on the fly just to talk to
 the DPMI interface and DOS.

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