eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu (Eugene Wang) (04/11/90)
>>>> On 10 Apr 90 19:10:29 GMT, sru@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Charles Sinnett) said: > I sure hope that that Quarterdeck decides to fix QEMM386, since it is an > awesome product, but I might have to find a substitute so I upgrade my > compiler.... Why are we assumming that this is Quarterdeck/Qualitas' problems. What has Microsoft done to make HIMEM.SYS incompatible? Quarterdeck and Qualitas essentially make the only commercial extended memory managers around, and to have MSC 6.0 incompatible with BOTH of them? I think Quarterdeck, Qualitas AND Microsoft should work out a solution. The problem should be Microsoft's. They know it's incompatible and what have they done? Just wondering, Eugene Wang eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu
tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) (04/11/90)
Eugene Wang <eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu> writes: > Why are we assumming that this is Quarterdeck/Qualitas' problems. What > has Microsoft done to make HIMEM.SYS incompatible? Quarterdeck and Qualitas > essentially make the only commercial extended memory managers around, and to > have MSC 6.0 incompatible with BOTH of them? I think Quarterdeck, > Qualitas AND Microsoft should work out a solution. The problem should be > Microsoft's. They know it's incompatible and what have they done? Well, here's the answer, from comp.os.os2: Alistair Banks <alistair@microsoft.UUCP> writes: # Further to this, Microsoft, Intel and many other industry leaders, # including the well-known DOS extender companies got together recently to # resolve the problems in current DOS-extender technologies. # Micrsoft has backed the resulting proposed DPMI standard, (Dos # Protect Mode Interface) and has stated that DPMI applications # will be supported under a future version of Windows and a future # version of OS/2. # As Gordon Letwin stated, VCPI is technically inedaquate to satisfy # our customer's stated requirements. DPMI enables the same important # features as VCPI, and will be supported in Microsoft's operating systems. # Alistair Banks # OS/2 Group # Microsoft I think we can assume from this that Quarterdeck will release a new version of QEMM/386 which *will* work with the new HIMEM.SYS, Windows 3.0 (next month) and OS/2 2.0 (or possibly a later version). Let's not spout at Microsoft without knowing all the facts... [ \tom haapanen -- university of waterloo -- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ] [ comp.binaries.os2 moderator -- submissions to os2bin@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ] [ "i say what i say, but i say it for myself and myself only" -- me ] [ "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]