On Tue, 11 May 1999, Eric J. Korpela wrote:
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> > o MSDOS driver support. I wrote a 640x480x16 color driver in about 45 minutes.
> >NanoX now runs on DOS! (OK, I did this only to see how portable nanoX
> >is, and the
> >mouse driver still isn't written) This still uses MSC graphics library.
> >I'll have the bios
> >int10 version driver done shortly, which will allow nanoX to run on
> >ELKS! We should
> >have an ELKS version shortly... BTW, the nanoX kernel is around 20k on DOS...
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> Does anyone else agree with me that direct int 10 access is a mistake?
> Wouldn't access through a device driver be a bit more unixy? It would
> be able to prevent multiple processes from trying to access int 10 services.
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> Eric
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What are the major bonuses of Int10 over the device driver? (If any).
Luke(Boo) Farrar.
