Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/22/06:53:32
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, David Beck wrote:
> ( Anyway, why do we protect the memory if there is
> only one process ? ;).
Who says so? What about all the TSRs and device drivers that are sitting
in memory and doing their things behind the scenes? or Emacs from which I
just spawned a compiler to run? or DOS itself? or a memory-mapped storage
device? Do we want their memory to be overwritten by a program who went
amok?
> My question is that, is it possible to make a DOS
> extender ( or modify some existing ), to support
> multithreading or I missed something ?
The FAQ points you to such a package in section 22.2. Another package
(LWP) was announced today on this news group.
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