Eric J. Korpela writes:
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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.
>
We could add another ioctl to the dircon driver that calls int 10 for us.
This would add minimal code to the kernel (no extra driver), and providing
everything can be done thorugh int 10 it would keep the user space code
hardware clean.
What do you think Greg?
Al
