Christian Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
>
> > Some guy writes:
> > > I have heard that it is possible to run Win3.x under Dosemu but not
> > > Win9x. From what I can tell the only thing preventing it from running
> > > Win9x is that Dosemu won't let himem.sys take control of the A20 Line in
> > > the dosmem. Is there a way to allow this? Are you considering releasing
> > > a version that will run Win9x? Please let me know.
> >
> > No, the only thing preventing it is that dosemu emulates an 8086 using
> > v86 mode, more or less, while Win3.x in enhanced mode and Win9x
> > requires at least a 386. Win3.x only runs in real mode under dosemu.
>
> This is all fair and nice, but how are we able to run protected-mode games
> in Win95's dos boxen _and_ in DOSEMU? What are the different requirements
> at this point?
Dosemu currently doesn't support applications that run in other than ring-3
in protected mode. Thus we can run DPMI applications, but not windows itself.
Eric
