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DOS Extenders

  • DOS/4G and DOS/4GW and DOS/16M by Tenberry Software, Inc.
  • 286|DOS Extender and 386|DOS Extender by Phar Lap
  • PROT by Al Williams, a 32-bit DOS extender published in Dr. Dobb's Journal and in two books. This extender had the virtue of running DOS and BIOS calls in emulated mode instead of switching back to real mode.
  • PMODE and PMODE/W by Thomas Pytel and Charles Sheffold. The latter was for Watcom C as an alternative to DOS/4GW, and was quite popular with demoscene programmers
  • Ergo (formerly Eclipse, formerly A. I. Architects) OS/286 and OS/386 extenders, and DPM16 and DPM32 servers
  • Microsoft Windows (DOS based versions) included both a DPMI server and DOS extender.
  • HX DOS Extender provides limited Win32 support
  • DosWin32 provides limited Win32 support
  • CWSDPMI by Charles W. Sandmann, a DPMI server for use with 32-bit protected mode DOS DJGPP programs
  • GO32, used in older (pre-v2) versions of DJGPP, and Free Pascal
  • DBOS by Salford Software, a 32-bit protected mode DOS extender used primarily by their FTN77 (Fortran Compiler)
  • DOS/32 as an alternative to DOS/4GW by Narech K.

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