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Re: lynx-dev Lynx386 & Caldera DR-DOS DPMI
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Michael Sokolov |
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Re: lynx-dev Lynx386 & Caldera DR-DOS DPMI |
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Thu, 23 Apr 98 11:31:43 -0400 |
Marc D. Williams <address@hidden> wrote:
> Just wondering something. Has anyone used Lynx with OpenDOS/DR-DOS
> and its DPMI?
> I took a stab at it and when I brought up Lynx the machine rebooted.
> I had renamed cwsdpmi first, btw. Tried it twice and the machine
> rebooted each time. Turned DPMI off and went back to cwsdpmi.
Hmm, the evidence I have suggests that Novell's DPMI implementation is correct,
albeit about 2 times slower than Microsoft's. Most likely it's DJGPP's fault,
since its idea of DPMI is light years apart from the written DPMI spec. I guess
I need to check whether DJGPP works with Microsoft's (Ralph Lipe's) DPMI
implementation, which is the reference (hey, Ralph is the author of DPMI!). If
it doesn't, than as far as written official specs are concerned this is DJGPP's
fault, and I think that the Lynx community is exactly THE group that should be
promoting adherence to written specs, be they HTML or DPMI.
Sincerely,
Michael Sokolov
Phone: 440-449-0299
ARPA Internet SMTP mail: address@hidden