Re: Some Questions

[Kevin Lawton]

Wouter Coene wrote:

I added a few more boxes to Wouter's Diagram.

-Kevin

> A while ago I drew a nice picture that might help you understand the idea:
> 
>                  +----------+ +----------------+
>                  | VGA BIOS | | special driver |
>                  +----------+ +----------------+
>                 - -V- - -V- - - -|- -|- - -|- - -
>                  +----------+    |   |     |
>                  | VGA emu  |    |   |     |
>                  +----------+    |   |     |
>                    V     V       V   V     V
>                  +-----------------------------+
>                  |    display code in user     |
>                  +-----------------------------+
                     /      |          |       \
                    /       |          |        \
               +-----+  +-------+  +------+  +------------+
               | X11 |  | Win32 |  | BeOS |  | Direct-lib |
               +-----+  +-------+  +------+  +------------+
                     \       |        |     /
                      \      |        |   /
                       +----------------+
                       | Video Hardware |
                       +----------------+