DOS ain't dead - FYI: Jack still alive

FYI: Jack still alive (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 30.07.2011, 07:57

> Singuirito wrote:
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> > J.R. Ellis has deceased today.
> > Rest in peace

IMO one shouldn't spread rumors posted by unknown people in an obscure forum. If I may cite Mr Ellis' post in FD-user:
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Re: recent EDR-DOS forum posts, I say the same as our author Mark Twain once did -- "The rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated"!
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> NO. VCPI is 32-bit only. But you can put (at your own risk) a 16-bit DPMI
> host (HDPMI16) between the VCPI host and you crappy 16-bit DPMI app.

VCPI works - and is needed - on 80386+ machines only, but is not "restricted" to 32-bits.

> - I DEPRECATE DPMI16 (even more than VCPI and DPMI32)

Is this good or bad? Will you come up with some cool replacements for DPMI soon?

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MS-DOS forever!

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Complete thread:

UIDE etc. (July 22) - Rugxulo, 25.07.2011, 21:26 (Announce)
- UIDE+jemm+VCPI - david, 28.07.2011, 13:34
  - UIDE+jemm+VCPI - Rugxulo, 28.07.2011, 22:38
- FYI: DEATH (of Jack) - DOS386, 29.07.2011, 09:20
  - FYI: Jack still alive - Japheth, 30.07.2011, 07:57
    - FYI: Jack still alive - DOS386, 30.07.2011, 16:12
  - BORLAND DPMI-16bit - david, 31.07.2011, 18:31
    - BORLAND DPMI-16bit - Japheth, 31.07.2011, 21:09
      - BORLAND DPMI-16bit - david, 02.08.2011, 17:10
        BORLAND DPMI-16bit - Rugxulo, 13.08.2011, 01:35
        BORLAND DPMI-16bit - bretjohn, 13.08.2011, 17:30
        BORLAND DPMI-16bit - Rugxulo, 14.08.2011, 00:13
        BORLAND DPMI-16bit - Laaca, 14.08.2011, 12:07
        BORLAND DPMI-16bit - Khusraw, 14.08.2011, 18:04
        BORLAND DPMI-16bit - Rugxulo, 14.08.2011, 18:36
        BORLAND DPMI-16bit - Laaca, 16.08.2011, 22:24
        BORLAND DPMI-16bit - bretjohn, 14.08.2011, 18:48
        BORLAND DPMI-16bit - a workaround for this issue - Japheth, 15.08.2011, 16:29
        BORLAND DPMI-16bit - a workaround for this issue - Rugxulo, 15.08.2011, 22:29
        BORLAND DPMI-16bit - a workaround for this issue - Japheth, 16.08.2011, 03:37
        BORLAND DPMI-16bit - a workaround for this issue - Rugxulo, 16.08.2011, 07:51