From:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject:	Re: SVGALIB stuff
Date:	Tue, 03 Dec 1996 14:14:52 +0100
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Orlando Andico wrote:
[...]
> 
> YEAHYEAHYEAH!!!
> I'm sick 'n tired of having to fire up the monstrous and massive XEmacs
> whenever I wanna have a decent programming environment..
> 
> The author of RHIDE said that the main part of porting RHIDE to Linux
> would be porting TVision right? as I understand it, the main obstacle
> (blobstacle?) is cursor-addressable text output (you would normally use
> Curses for this, which is quite inefficient for fast output).
> 
> I had this idea though: is it possible to write text to the Linux console
> screen using direct writes into the video RAM? i.e. the old "poke it into
> 0xb0000 or 0xb8000 trick"? after all, the Linux kernel leaves the upper
> 384K of the lower 1MB untouched..
[...]


Really grand idea. So you're blowing two ideas at once,
excluding people on a terminal _AND_ the rest of the
UNIX world where curses is standard. I really 
apreciate using programs written for Linux on my
AIX machines. Completely different OS, different CPU, simply
make && make install

Writing to VGA RAM is IMHO faster, but not better.

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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