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A DOS extender is a computer software program running under DOS that enables software to run in a protected mode environment even though the host operating system is only capable of operating in real mode.
DOS extenders were initially developed in the 1980s following the introduction of the Intel 80286 processor (and later expanded upon with the Intel 80386), to cope with the memory limitations of DOS.
A DOSextender is a computer software program running under DOS that enables software to run in a protected mode environment even though the host operating...
Phar Lap Adds EMS, Windows Support To DOSExtender Development Kit, InfoWorld, April 1, 1991 Phar Lap DOSExtender Uses XMS, PC Magazine, June 11, 1991...
(virtual DPMI host) or by a DOSextender (real DPMI host). The DPMI kernel can be a part of a DOSextender such as in DOS/4GW or DOS/32A, or separate, like...
support for MS-DOS, such as internationalization, or the Advanced Power Management TSRs. Furthermore, with the use of HX DOSExtender, many Windows Console...
Watcom's WLINK; additionally, FASM can create them directly. DOSDOSextender Portable Executable DOS API Executable compression Paul, Matthias R. (2002-10-07)...
embedded development; cross tools for embedded development; and 286|DOS-Extender, a DOSextender that emulated an OS/2 environment, complete with the OS/2 API...
Comparison of DOS operating systems DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) DOSextenderDOS MZ executable COMMAND.COM Ray Duncan (1988). Advanced MS-DOS Programming:...
the portions of the DPMI that crossed into DOSextender territory - specifically, direct support of the DOS and ROM BIOS interrupts in protected mode....
(DOSextender, as generated by Borland C/Pascal compilers) COFF executables, used by DJGPP2 a.out format, BSD i386 (removed) Raw 8086/DOS files: DOS/COM...
(1993) was shipped as a "bi-modal" (win32, i.e. PE) DOS-extended binary (using the Phar Lap TNT DOSextender). However, the setup.exe is an MZ executable so...
load and execute in extended memory and protected mode. Not being a DOSextender by itself, DPMS is a minimal set of extendedDOS memory management services...
DOS/360 from 1966. Others include Apple DOS, Apple ProDOS, Atari DOS, Commodore DOS, TRSDOS, and AmigaDOS. IBM PC DOS (and the separately sold MS-DOS)...
MS-DOS and the Phar Lap DOSextender (RUN386.EXE). Most games for the system were written in protected mode Assembly and C using the Phar Lap DOS extender...
native Xbox 360 compressed audio format extended memory area; an addressable region of memory under a DOSExtender Expanded Memory Adapter, an IBM standard...
DOS extender (DOS/32 Advanced DOSExtender being the most up-to-date version compatible). Mpxplay supports many features unique to it among DOS/console...
flag if the application is unprivileged. Some old DOS programs that use a protected mode DOSextender and install their own interrupt handlers (usually...
into the HMA.) Paul, Matthias R. (2002-04-01). "Fix for CauseWay DOSextender under DR-DOS 7.0x EMM386.EXE". Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.programmer. Archived...
Linux and most other versions of Unix), Mach-O (on macOS and iOS) and MZ (on DOS). Metadata is casually used to describe the controlling data used in software...
In DOS memory management, extended memory refers to memory above the first megabyte (220 bytes) of address space in an IBM PC or compatible with an 80286...
specifications for DOSextenders were VCPI- and later DPMI-compatible with Windows 3.x. The most notable DPMI-compliant DOSextender may be DOS/4GW, shipping...
similar to other 32-bit DPMI hosts such as HDPMI32, which is part of HX DOSExtender. CWSDPMI r7 is free and open-source software. CWSDSTUB.EXE is a stub...
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