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Russ Cox wrote:
>>If we had a user-mode emulator, could we replace the realmode driver?
> 
> 
> Sure, but it has to work for running the APM BIOS and also the
> VESA BIOS calls that aux/vga uses.

ok, I need to go do some more code reading. I was unaware of these bios 
calls!

Thanks

ron