dos protected mode interface

1 definition found

dos protected mode interface - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  DOS Protected Mode Interface
  DPMI
  
     (DPMI) The method which Microsoft prescribes for a DOS
     program to access extended memory under a multitasking
     environment, e.g. Microsoft Windows.  This service is
     provided by the HIMEM.SYS driver on IBM PCs.
  
     The DPMI specification was finalized in 1990.  The
     specification itself is available from Intel Literature Sales
     .
  
     VCPI (Virtual Control Program Interface), which was an
     alternative, and incompatible method for doing the same thing.
  
     ["Windows 3.1 Secrets", Brian Livingston, 1992, ISBN
     1-878058-43-6, pages 280-281 and 302].
  
     (1995-01-12)