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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!cs.umd.edu!nmrdc1!dsc3pzp From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) Subject: Re: DOS/Windows under 386bsd (is there such?) Message-ID: <C7ozMs.rr@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command References: <BLYMN.93May26170510@siren.awadi.com.au> <1tvrvo$eqa@umd5.umd.edu> <1u2er1$foe@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 15:42:27 GMT Lines: 30 In article <1u2er1$foe@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) writes: >It's my understanding that all of the IO functionality of windows applications >is handled by the DLL's, calls to which are resolved at load/run time. > >If this is the case, then it must be possible to have a system that provides >all the functionality of the DLL's but for X, so you could run windows >applications under X on a [34]86 system running unix. > >I'm sure that there are a million reasons why this can't be done! (If it were >possible, I'm sure a lot more people would trash their DOS/Windows partitions - >I know I would!) > >Anyway, just an idea... > It has been a while, but... When writing for Windoze, use of the API is optional. You need to call the API enough to get the GUI, but other than that, you can still "talk" directly to the hardware. Talking to the hardware clearly bypasses the DLL. LOVE that MS-DOS! -- ============================================================================== phil perucci | "Any opinions expressed are my views, dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil | not the position of any organization" ==============================================================================