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Date:      Thu, 6 Feb 1997 15:26:44 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        ponds!ponds!rivers (Thomas David Rivers)
Cc:        ponds!atrad.adelaide.edu.au!msmith, ponds!ponds!ravenock.cybercity.dk!sos, ponds!ponds!csv.warwick.ac.uk!csubl, ponds!ponds!FreeBSD.ORG!hackers
Subject:   Re: What happened to the splash screen?
Message-ID:  <199702060456.PAA00727@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199702060443.XAA26253@lakes.water.net> from Thomas David Rivers at "Feb 5, 97 11:43:05 pm"

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Thomas David Rivers stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > There was also a problem with VGA font corruption; did that get fixed
> > Soren?  The last difficulty is that during device probes, interrupts are
> > turned off so you can't hotkey between the splash and the probe display.
> 
>  I'm just curious; if this were to get "put in" - would it do
> something meaningful on monochrome (i.e. Hercules compatible) displays?

What's "meaningful"?  With a single VGA bitmap in the kernel, the
bloat for the splash screen runs to about 70K.  Short of having a seperate
monochrome image, or a F/S dither, it'll just ignore the splash and probe
as normal.

> 	- Dave R. -

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