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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: where should SET name=thing go?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.165156.11113@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 16:51:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.151847.17868@midway.uchicago.edu> <Bz9vtp.2uz@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> <BUHR.92Dec18105110@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <BUHR.92Dec18105110@ccu.umanitoba.ca> buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr) writes:
- >> What do you mean here "specific DOS"?
- >A VDM session: this is a feature whereby it is possible to "boot" a
- >session from drive A and have it run just as if it was run on a normal
- >8088 machine. In this way, you could boot an old version of DOS, if
- >you had a program that wasn't compatible with OS/2's version of DOS,
- >for example. You could also run a program that required booting from
- >a drive, even a program that didn't use DOS, provided that program
- >didn't try to use any protected mode features.
-
- Well, more precisely, the "specific DOS session" does have access to
- EMS, XMS, and DPMI (along with the mouse and, often, OS/2 networking)
- through virtual device drivers. So it can, in fact, use protected
- mode features.
-
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