From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <41AC57CC.2020505@sitetronics.com> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:21:48 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) MIME-Version: 1.0 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 References: <74f32320e9b5042e0d79f57b4c38aeca@vitanuova.com> <41AC4E03.7010004@sitetronics.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0f38bdce-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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