> During boot I would expect at least MS-DOS to use the BIOS to write to
> screen.
True, but these sort of functions are very easy indeed to write, it's only
the mode switching that would be a pain in the rear, so perhaps a plugin
for mode switch / vesa calls, and the rest your or I could probably sit
down and write in a couple of days with a copy of the ralf brown list,
save a couple of funky ones, like setting the font/font size, which would
also need to go back to plex86.
-Gfunk
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Elmar Haneke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: API documentation
>
>
> > But the VGA BIOS is only used for mode setup, any program that uses int
10h for the
> > actual pixel drawing would be too slow to use on *any* system...
>
> And for Textmode-Operation.
> During boot I would expect at least MS-DOS to use the BIOS to write to
> screen.
>
> On 32Bit OS the BIOS-Performance should be meaningless since there
> should be an 32Bit driver used instead. The Disk-BIOS is also used as
> an last choice only.
>
> Elmar
>
