Comment by trollbridge
5 hours ago
DPMI clients don’t run in a VM, though. They’re just a normal task like any other task / process in Windows.
5 hours ago
DPMI clients don’t run in a VM, though. They’re just a normal task like any other task / process in Windows.
So... Win32 runs in virtual mode. In 2025, we don't think of that as a Virtual Machine, but it totally is. Hardware access is trapped by the CPU and processed by the OS/DPMI server.