A lot of information...........I take it that writing assembler code for
nasty irregular interfaces isn't your idea of a good time........(believe
me, you do not want to do it in C/C++!!).
Drew Northup, N1XIM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Aaron Lehmann
> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 12:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: plex86 not starting :(
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:22:16AM -0500, Kevin Lawton wrote:
> > It's solid, does the job, is licensed for use with plex86, and is
> > one less thing for us to worry about. VGA BIOS calls have a bunch
> > of non or poorly documented quirks. Anyways, we can use another
> > VGA BIOS if one is written. I'm not writing it. Mostly we need
> > a video BIOS to get us through the booting stage, until a driver
> > is loaded by the OS to drive either the VGA emulation of a guest
> > specific interface. So it's kind of a moot point.
>
> Any chance of convincing them to release the source under the GPL? I
> know it's not likely, but how much proprietary and valuable
> information can there be in a 32k binary?
>
