• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Inch DPMI—DOS Protected Mode Interface DPMS—Display Power Management Signaling DR—Disaster Recovery DRAM—Dynamic Random-Access Memory DR-DOS—Digital Research...
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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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  • code embedded inside a compiled executable file. DOS/32 DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) DOS API "DOS/4G Release Notes". Archived from the original on...
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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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    Extended memory (category DOS memory management)
    provide expanded memory to them. The DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) is Microsoft's prescribed method for a DOS program to access extended memory under...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • QEMM (section DOS-Up)
    Memory Specification (XMS), Virtual Control Program Interface (VCPI) and DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI). Quickboot: It allows a form of warm reboot...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Expanded memory (category DOS memory management)
    and DOS extenders ended up being regulated by the XMS, Virtual Control Program Interface (VCPI), DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) and DOS Protected Mode...
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  • declined for its product line. As MS-DOS's fifth iteration approached, IBM demanded a version that could run in "protected mode", to allow multiple programs at...
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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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    OS/2 (redirect from DOS 5 (OS/2))
    intended as a protected-mode successor of PC DOS targeting the Intel 80286 processor. Notably, basic system calls were modeled after MS-DOS calls; their...
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  • Windows Me (redirect from MS-DOS 8.0)
    user interface, shell and Windows Explorer. Although Windows Me was still ultimately based around MS-DOS like its predecessors, access to real-mode DOS was...
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