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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] What a poor VGA support !
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:08:33 GMT."
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:37:04 -0600
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>>>>> "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