From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 09:33:00 GMT
In article <1992Sep7.133347.4433@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
>1) Calling BIOS from a multitasking OS is trick, dangerous, and impossible
> for those of us running SVR3/4
An interesting way to get around all of those: set up a v86 process that
calls the BIOS routines for you. It can be done, and I've seen it (not for
the card in question, however), although I don't recall enough to make any
claims about performance.
It probably requires some kernel help, however.
There's more than one way to skin a cat, remember!
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