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- From: rhealey@dellr4.digibd.com (Rob Healey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: ECS X-windows
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 01:45:47 GMT
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- In article <143396@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, greggs@izar.nersc.gov (Gregg D. Schoenberger) writes:
- |> Could be, but hardware tweekers do seem to do amazing stuff with
- |> plain 'ol ADos or a naked machine, why not here? Given a single-threaded
- |> nature of the device driver ( contention-wise ), some things not legal under
- |> ADos might be legal here. Of course sticking to whatever guidelines are
- |> available should be done....
- |>
- Take a look at the console, graphics and video code in the kernel
- source under /usr/src. It's a very interdependant web of twisty
- passages all alike... I.e. you can't just tweek here and there,
- alot of stuff is interrelated in subtle ways.
-
- |> Yes, conceded point. But why not make ECS/AGA capabilities available,
- |> especially since I recall being told that a native Color-X would be
- |> done (long ago). Besides, not everyone has buckets of cash, they might
- |> need some for memory/disk. Slow color may have a niche in this market,
- |> why not exploit it? Could serve as a teaser to inspire someone to get
- |> a separate card/monitor/desk-to-hold-it/power-substation-to-run-it-all. ;-)
-
- The ECS modes change timing inside the kernel and that could do nasty
- stuff to UNIX... Maybe the people who did the work could elaborate?
-
- If it wasn't a pisser to do it would have already been done.
-
- -Rob
-