RE: Port old 16-bit Win program to FreeBSD that needs access to core memory

2006-05-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi Sam, This isn't the best mailing list to ask this question, but here goes. You generally cannot directly access memory under UNIX, period. You have to go through a device driver. Keep in mind WIndows is a single-user system, thus a Windows program can make a lot of assumptions. One of

Port old 16-bit Win program to FreeBSD that needs access to core memory

2006-05-25 Thread Sam Guyer
I have an old 16-bit C++ program written for Win 3.1 that I would like to be able to run on FreeBSD. Before I try to port the application, I wanted to know if it would be possible at all. The program needs to directly access the memory range D-D, and as I am new to FreeBSD I don't