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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Path: sparky!uunet!rosevax!aquarius!grante
- From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Subject: Re: Are we dead??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.153557.16173@rosevax.rosemount.com>
- Sender: news@rosevax.rosemount.com (USENET News administrator)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: aquarius
- Reply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
- References: <9211193258@umunk.GUN.de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:35:57 GMT
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- udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:
- : Grant Edwards (grante@aquarius.rosemount.com) wrote:
- : : Once the device driver kit comes out, I think porting the MGR window
- : : system would be an excellent idea. This will require graphics drivers
- : : that implement the standard bitblt operations for various boards , as
- : : well as mouse drivers.
- :
- : I've started with the window manager of MGR some time ago, but with a
- : low priority because of the missing driver kit. Every one is wellcome
- : to join this project. Is anyone out there who is really familar with
- : writing device drivers? I never wrote one so far, maybe someone else
- : has more experience whith that then I. As Grant stated above, there
- : are graphics drivers for the various boards to write. The driver
- : kit comes with an bus mouse driver, but I also would like to see
- : an driver for serial mice.
-
- I wrote one driver for Coherent 3.2, and have done low level graphics
- stuff under DOS. I would be willing to do a graphics driver for
- Hercules monochrome boards. I switched from a serial mouse to a bus
- mouse a while back, so I'll leave that one for somebody else.
-
- --
- Grant Edwards |Yow! Now I'm being
- Rosemount Inc. |INVOLUNTARILY shuffled closer
- |to the CLAM DIP with the
- grante@aquarius.rosemount.com |BROKEN PLASTIC FORKS in it!!
-