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- From: wolff@erasmus.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
- Subject: Re: DOS emulation
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- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 16:57:58 GMT
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- joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
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- >doesn't like the (current) VC scheme. To really get things running,
- >so that DOS processes that like to use the entire video card (not to
- >mention X) can run either in the background or on a non-selected VC
- >(which, as you mention, is basically the same thing), the VC code
- >would have to emulate the entire video card, not just the text buffer.
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- Once X is running it only fiddles with the registers to swap windows to
- the frame memory. This should be easy enough to emulate?
-
- Roger
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