Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 09:05:40 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: John Beppu <beppu AT rigel DOT oac DOT uci DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: NASM Propaganda
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On 15 Apr 1997, John Beppu wrote:

[...]
>  
>     I'm a Linux user, but I must give respect
>     to the people at Microsoft responsible for the dos shell,
>     because they did a great job.  I was surprised to see the
>     EGA and VGA port accesses being caught and emulated within
>     the dos shell.  (When will DOSEMU be able to do this?! ;-)
[...]

DOSEMU _can_ do this. It can even run Windows 3.1 in an X window. DOSEMU
emulates both the standard VGA modes plus the Trident 8900 chipset (when
running under X). When running from the console, it uses the native card's
capabilities.

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Orlando Andico                               IRC Lab/EE Dept/UP Diliman
email: orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph          http://gibson.eee.upd.edu.ph
   "There's an obvious attraction to the path of least resistance.."