From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] What a poor VGA support !
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:37:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206141637.g5EGb4JZ011660@orthanc.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:08:33 GMT." <3D09C883.6A525C9A@yahoo.com>
>>>>> "Agnelo" == Agnelo de la Crotche <agnelo.geo@yahoo.com> writes:
Sorry folks, but I'm in a particularly pedantic mood this morning ...
> 6 DOSez : MS-DOS, PC DOS, Open DOS, DR DOS, PTS DOS, FreeDOS
None of these have VGA support. They use the BIOS to write to the
screen as if it was a 24x80 tty.
> 6 Windozes : 95, 98 , ME, NT, 2K, XP
Make that two Windows: 95 and NT. The others are just different
releases of 95/NT.
> 3 BSD : FreeBSD, Open BSD, Net BSD
> 2 Linux : Debian, Suse
> 2 Unix : SCO, Solaris
As with DOS, none of these operating systems treats the VGA
device as anything more than a cursor-addressable tty device.
All the VGA magic is handled by a user-space application: the X
server.
--lyndon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-14 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-13 14:21 presotto
2002-06-14 11:08 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-14 14:26 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-14 16:37 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2002-06-14 20:16 ` Jason Gurtz
2002-06-15 0:27 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2002-06-17 9:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-16 22:41 ` Digby Tarvin
2002-06-19 8:45 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-17 9:14 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-14 15:51 Russ Cox
2002-06-14 14:42 andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-14 9:44 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-14 13:50 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-13 14:47 Russ Cox
2002-06-13 13:16 forsyth
2002-06-13 16:45 ` plan9
2002-06-13 9:29 Agnelo de la Crotche
2002-06-13 14:19 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-06-13 17:46 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-14 8:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-14 14:41 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-06-14 8:45 ` Agnelo de la Crotche
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