Re: Paging Beth Stone


To Frank, Herbert, Annie, and 'the likes' :)

Yes we may know how do act on documented hardware features,
but we hardly are able to cover them all...

| "man 2 vm86" sure isn't very enlightening. We *do* have the source code
| available to us - joy that it is to decypher. :(

Yes, VM86 is a worst delaying way, but the only way for the poor ...

| I'm probably too new to figure it out, but I'll look into it...
| *Anything* to keep a programmer from the Windows ***! :)

It really wont hurt if you ignore windoze ...

| > > Doing the VESA via VM86 thing would be a bit of a bitch,

| I refer you to the comment in the asmutils "cp.asm":
| ; Recursive copying is a bitch, but what the hell!
| ; We do ASM here.

Sometimes it's neccessary to be a bitch, at least when you ride
the wrong horse (Os).

| I suspect vm86 is a bigger bitch than recursive copying. Perhaps an
| "intractible" problem...

I see it even more worse, but this is an 'OS only' matter ...

> but the reason I
> gave up on Linux was because what I wanted wasn't possible, not
> because it was difficult.

| ... but maybe not impossible...

in my world the term 'impossible' is a variable,
depending on 'who is trying what' :):)


| More likely, the LuxAsm team would dearly love to recruit Richard to
| help *us* out!

I've been asked once too, but LinDoNix is not what I see in future.

Why don't you/we all make up a list of what an OS should support
in Low-Level ASM-terms and create an ALA-OS which fits all the demands.

I once did KESYS that way, based on a few clients demands.

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wolfgang


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