• computing, the DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) is a specification introduced in 1989 which allows a DOS program to run in protected mode, giving access...
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  • Control Program Interface (VCPI) is a specification published in 1989 by Phar Lap Software that allows a DOS program to run in protected mode, granting access...
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  • DOS Protected Mode Services (DPMS) is a set of extended DOS memory management services to allow DPMS-enabled DOS drivers to load and execute in extended...
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  • late 1980s, DOS extenders along with the DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) allow the programs to run in either 16-bit or 32-bit protected mode and still...
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  • of DOS. A DOS extender is a program that "extends" DOS so that programs running in protected mode can transparently interface with the underlying DOS API...
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  • DPMI may refer to: DOS Protected Mode Interface Cashmeran (6,7-dihydro-1,1,2,3,3-pentamethyl-4(5H)-indanone), a synthetic musk This disambiguation page...
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    DJGPP (redirect from GO32 (DOS extender))
    utilities such as Bash, find, tar, ls, GAWK, sed, and ld to DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI). Supported languages include C, C++, Objective-C/C++,...
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  • 12-firm committee that designed the DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI). VCPI and DPMI are industry standards allowing DOS extenders to co-exist with expanded...
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  • software (DOS extenders), which has to conform to the DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI). When a DOS program running inside a VDM needs to access a peripheral...
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  • Professional, PMODE/W and CauseWay DOS Extenders. The DOS Extender includes a built-in Advanced DOS Protected Mode Interface server supporting v0.9 of the...
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    memory management including new support for DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface) and DPMS (DOS Protected Mode Services) as well as more flexible loadhigh options...
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  • executable file. DOS/32 DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) DOS API DOS extender works with Windows, InfoWorld, July 22, 1991 "DOS/4G Release Notes"...
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  • Procedure Call DPI—Deep packet inspection DPI—Dots per inch DPMI—DOS Protected Mode Interface DPMS—Display Power Management Signaling DPO—Data Protection Officer...
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    DOSEMU (redirect from Dos-emu)
    speed for 8086-compatible DOS operating systems and applications on x86 compatible processors, and for DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) applications on...
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    Extended memory (category DOS memory management)
    directly by DOS programs running in protected mode using VCPI or DPMI, two (different and incompatible) methods of using protected mode under DOS. Extended...
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    (VCPI) Extended Virtual Control Program Interface (XVCPI) DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) DOS Protected Mode Services (DPMS) Helix Cloaking Mueller...
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    Upper memory area (redirect from UMA (DOS))
    above) didn't work in Windows 95. Only the DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) API for switching to protected mode was supported. Upper memory blocks can...
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  • created in real mode, but are subject to protected mode's memory paging mechanism. The virtual 8086 mode is a mode for a protected-mode task. Consequently...
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  • VBE provide only a real mode interface, which cannot be used without a significant performance penalty from within protected mode operating systems. Consequently...
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    CPU to transition from protected mode to real mode because the 286 did not allow the CPU to go from protected mode to real mode unless the CPU is reset...
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  • Developer's Tool Employs DOS For Mainframe-Size Applications, InfoWorld, November 10, 1986 286/DOS-Extender: Build Protected Mode Apps for DOS, PC Magazine, May...
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  • interrupt call Cylinder-head-sector INT (x86 instruction) DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface) Ralf Brown's Interrupt List BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Specification...
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  • Windows 2.0 (category DOS software)
    Virtual Control Program Interface (VCPI) in "standard mode" and with DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) in "386 enhanced" mode. Microsoft ended its support...
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  • Windows/386 2.0 introduced a protected mode kernel that can multitask several MS-DOS applications using virtual 8086 mode, but all Windows applications...
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    MS-DOS 4.0 was a multitasking release of MS-DOS developed by Microsoft based on MS-DOS 2.0. Lack of interest from OEMs, particularly IBM (who previously...
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  • Windows 95 (category DOS variants)
    to run in compatibility mode, the Real Mode Mapper can access it through MS-DOS. 32-bit Windows programs are assigned protected memory segments, which...
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  • knowledge of where they are located in memory. DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) DOS Protected Mode Services (DPMS) J/Direct Microsoft Layer for Unicode...
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    text-based user interface was later invented to name this kind of interface. Many MS-DOS text mode applications, like the default text editor for MS-DOS 5.0 (and...
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    user interface (GUI), in various generations of the graphical Microsoft Windows operating system. IBM licensed and re-released it in 1981 as PC DOS 1.0...
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  • and switch into protected mode. Once in protected mode, the virtual device drivers (VxDs) transferred all state information from MS-DOS to the 32-bit file...
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