From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
To:	demmer AT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: SVGALIB stuff
Date:	Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:38:49 +0300 (GMT)
Message-ID:	<9611261638.aa19022@ailin.inti.edu.ar>

>Orlando Andico wrote:
>[...]
>> 
[snip]
>> 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.

I discussed that a couple of month ago, if you make a TVison port using Curses 
you'll need a mainframe to get a relative good speed in the screen. 
On the other hand you can rewrite TVision to be more efficient and eat more CPU 
instead of making so much screen output, but that's a real nightmare. Do you 
have any idea of how complex are the output routine for this kind of programs?

SET

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