Watcom 10.0 ?
13-Jul-94 06:58:03
Sb: #112582-Watcom 10.0 ?
Fm: Gus Grubba 70673,1605
To: Ken Mascaro, Xing T 70703,3505
The PharLap "DOS Extender" is what you cannot distribute unless you
pay royalties. That thing is a 250+k clunk of code that gets "bound"
to the application. IPAS do not get bound to the extender as they run
as child processes of 3D Studio which _is_ bound to the DOS Extender.
Think of PharLap as a Protected Mode -> Real Mode -> Protected Mode
bridge. It's not much more than that. The bulk of the code is in
supporting almost all kinds of system calls (you are now making int
21h's in protected mode and DOS down below doesn't even know what
that means).