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- From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: DOS emulation
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 17:04:18 GMT
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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- Rogier Wolff (wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl) wrote:
- ..
- :
- : At first video emulation need only be at 80x25 textmode. In the end it
- : shouldn't be too hard to detect "going into graphics", and emulate that
- : too. It might become a little slow, but it should at least work....
- Interactive's console device driver has a call to memory map video
- memory into a process's space. I think that X does this. How does
- Linux X get to video memory?
-
- I think this is also used in VP/IX to get high speed graphics,
- although certain things are way too slow.
- :
- : >Rewriting a stand-alone version of MS-DOS is probably less difficult than
- : >making a hack for linux. At least then you don't have to worry about the
- : >hardware compatibility.
- :
- : No comment.
- :
- : Roger
- : --
- : **** a 486 in V86 mode is like a VW buggy with a 6 litre V12 motor. ****
- : EMail: wolff@duteca.et.tudelft.nl ** Tel +31-15-783644 or +31-15-142371
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- sdw
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