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Q64445: How to Order the DPMI or VCPI Specification

Article: Q64445
Product(s): Microsoft Windows 95.x Retail Product
Version(s): WINDOWS:3.0,3.0a,3.1,3.11
Operating System(s): 
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Last Modified: 10-OCT-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows versions 3.0, 3.0a, 3.1, 3.11 
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SUMMARY
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The DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) specification (version 1.0) is
distributed as Intel Part Number 240997-001 and can be obtained at no charge
from:

  Intel Literature Sales jp26
  3065 Bowers Ave.
  P.O. Box 58065
  Santa Clara, CA 95051-8065
  Phone: (800) 548-4725 (international customers should contact their local
  Intel sales representative)

The Virtual Control Program Interface (VCPI) Specification (version 1.0, dated
June 12, 1989) can be obtained from:

  Phar Lap Software, Inc.
  60 Aberdeen Avenue
  Cambridge, MA 02138
  Phone: (617) 661-1510

MORE INFORMATION
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Members of the DPMI Committee include the following:

  Borland International
  Eclipse Computer Solutions, Inc.
  International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
  Intelligent Graphics Corporation
  Intel Corporation
  Locus Computing Corporation
  Lotus Development Corporation
  Microsoft Corporation
  Phar Lap Software, Inc.
  Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
  Quarterdeck Office Systems
  Rational Systems, Inc.

For more information on this subject, refer to the July 1990 issue of "Microsoft
Systems Journal" (Vol. 5, No. 4) or to "Extending DOS" by Ray Duncan (published
by Addison-Wesley).

Additional query words: 3.00 3.0 3.0a 3.00a MSJ V5-4 Jul 90

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Technology        : kbWin3xSearch kbZNotKeyword3 kbWin300 kbWin300a kbWin310 kbWin311
Version           : WINDOWS:3.0,3.0a,3.1,3.11

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