From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] VBE 1.2/2.0+ functions for Plan9
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:21:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41AC57CC.2020505@sitetronics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <opsh9ykqvz3anw4g@tiitl.aprote.com>
Tiit Lankots wrote:
>> Well, I must admit, I'm not the best assembly developer out there.
>> I've been taking a look at how DragonFly BSD [1] and NetBSD [2] are
>> doing it [executing real mode code under protected mode], and I'm
>> having a bit of trouble understanding how it works.
>
>
> Why bother. My bet would be on SciTech's SNAP; they recently released it
> under some GPL. I've been playing with it and it seems nice enough
> to warrant some poking around. Alas, I don't have the time right now.
Because VBE will work on all the cards that have been manufactured in
the last 8 years and SNAP won't.
--Devon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-30 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-25 16:44 Devon H. O'Dell
2004-11-25 17:13 ` rog
2004-11-25 18:57 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2004-11-29 20:21 ` Jack Johnson
2004-11-30 12:51 ` rog
2004-11-30 10:40 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2004-11-30 11:08 ` Tiit Lankots
2004-11-30 11:21 ` Devon H. O'Dell [this message]
2004-11-30 11:28 ` Tiit Lankots
2004-11-30 11:37 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2004-11-26 3:03 Fwd: " Bob Hartley
2004-11-26 3:04 ` boyd, rounin
2004-11-26 3:08 ` Russ Cox
2004-11-26 4:19 ` Bob Hartley
2004-11-26 5:52 ` Devon H. O'Dell
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