Re: Comment on Memory Management FAQ

Eric Auer wrote:

>Sorry George, you completely mixed up everything.
>
Oops, goofed again!    :-(

>>I should also correct myself:  While most of us here I suppose are not 
>>that concerned with running DOS boxes in Windows, we may indeed be 
>>running DOS boxes in Linux, in which there might be multiple DOS boxes 
>>running in that system.  So then a DPMI would be of importance to us 
>>after all...
>>
>
>Wrong. In DOS boxes (both Linux and Windows), DPMI is permanently available
>to the DOS programs. So they do not need any driver for it, nor do they
>need VCPI. Drivers for EMS and XMS are also directly provided by Linux and
>
Point taken.  But I merely was trying to state that DPMI is of 
importance for us because we are running DOS boxes in Linux.  If we 
didn't care for DOS boxes in Linux at all, then we wouldn't care about 
DPMI, only VCPI.   Perhaps this is just too obvious for you, but for me 
it was another step up the learning curve....   But along the way you 
have made some excellent points anyway!  :-)

George