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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2390 comp.os.linux.misc:13539 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!cc.gatech.edu!prism!prism!not-for-mail From: gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 21 Apr 1994 15:23:03 -0400 Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2p6jqn$9b2@acme.gatech.edu> References: <hastyCo2r27.Js2@netcom.com> <Co40Cs.16v4@austin.ibm.com> <2ocl4a$dr4@acme.gatech.edu> <hastyCo5p59.MvK@netcom.com> <2p72cm$278@eve.adam.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gatech.edu steve@adam.com.au (Stephen White) writes: >Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote: >: You are right that I was asking for a dosemu in the past. >: My sole purpose was to provide a mechanism to initialize >: devices such as SVGA cards. >You wanted a DOS emulator to initialise SVGA cards? >Like, the startup script for X would have "dosemu -c INITSVGA.EXE" in it? >Your middle name isn't "Othmar" by any chance? No, what he's saying isn't ridiculous at all. Having a way to run the vendor-supplied VGA BIOS to initialize the cards with proprietary and undocumented (or only documented with an NDA) hardware would be a good thing for many people. It's still a good idea, but I don't have the time or need or desire to work on it, and everyone else knows better. -- _g, '96 --->>>>>>>>>> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu <<<<<<<<<--- CompSci ,g_ W@@@W__ |-\ ^ | disclaimer: <---> "Bow before ZOD!" __W@@@W W@@@@**~~~' ro|-<ert s/_\ nders | who am I??? ^ from Superman '~~~**@@@@W `*MV' hi,ocie! |-/ad! / \ss!! | ooga ooga!! | II (cool)! `VW*'