From: Thomas Demmer Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: SVGALIB stuff Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 14:14:52 +0100 Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik Lines: 43 Message-ID: <32A427CC.446B@LSTM.Ruhr-UNI-Bochum.De> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: bvb.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp 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 ************************************************************* * Thomas Demmer * * Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik * * Ruhr-Uni-Bochum * * Universitaetsstr. 150 * * D-44780 Bochum * * Tel: +49 234 700 6434 * * Fax: +49 234 709 4162 * * Voice/Fax Box: +49 2561 91371 2056 * * http://www.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~demmer * *************************************************************