Re: GEM (WAS Re: vgalib)

[Joshua E. Rodd]

Jakob Eriksson wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, David Given wrote:
> Ahem.
> I know two things.
> 1. It can live on rather small resources in terms RAM and CPU.

So can Windows/286 2.1 (512K/dual diskette) or Windows 1.04
(320K/dual diskette). (Both run on 16-bit real mode machines.)
That doesn't mean we can't do better <grin>.

> 2. It runs on MC68000, (atari) that is not segmented at all.

Windows/286 2.1 runs just fine on my Pentium. That doesn't mean
it's not still shackled by its segmentation.

The GEM code is neat, and it *is* GPL'd, so maybe we can play
with it, but it's always more fun to write our own code than
port. =)