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From: rwsoukoreff@trillium.waterloo.edu (Rob Soukoreff)
Subject: What does DJGPP do?
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.233033.22072@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: DJGPP, Compiler
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Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1991 23:30:33 GMT
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  Hello,

I've seen the recent series of articles about DJGPP, the GPP Compiler
for "MSDOS 386".  My question is simply:  What does that mean?

Is there a special Extender that makes changes vanilla MSDOS into
MSDOS 386?  Does this mean MSDOS can be made to do Multitasking,
or handle Virtual memory?

Does the DJGPP Compiler allow access to the real 386 functions, like
Multitasking, or Vritual memory?

In short, what's the distinction between this "386 GPP Compiler", and
a Non 386 GPP Compiler?



   Thanks in advance,
     R. Soukoreff
     rwsoukoreff@trillium.uwaterloo.ca