Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 19:05:44 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, phk@critter.tfs.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, dgy@rtd.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Message-ID: <199602030835.TAA00989@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <96Feb2.102042pst.177479@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Feb 2, 96 10:20:37 am
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Bill Fenner stands accused of saying: > >Anyone out there ever written a video BIOS? > > PC BIOS's probably still all have code to deal with BIOS-less mono video > cards; why not just decode the video memory range and update internal state > with the memory writes, then convert them into VT100 codes (or, rather, the > card should have a downloadable termcap in NVRAM so that I can plug in my > tvi925!...) That means RAM on the card. Yecch. You still need a BIOS hook to be able to fake the keyboard. > Bill -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[
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