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From: Alexey Pialkin <pialkin@abel.pdmi.ras.ru>
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Subject: Re: New doscmd available for testing/munching
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:10:13 +0400 (MSD)
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In-Reply-To: <199609251152.VAA09253@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Sep 25, 96 09:22:35 pm
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> 
> Alexey Pialkin stands accused of saying:
> > > Actually, you mmap /dev/vga which roots at the base of video memory.  This
> > > is much cleaner, not to mention safer.
> > 
> > BTW, why ?
> 
> Because you're mapping the video card's memory, not "generic memory".
> If the card is somewhere else, then you don't have to worry about it.
> If Soren wakes up and changes it just a little bit, you will _only_ be
> able to map the region of memory that the card decodes into.

Nice. But it doesn't matter for us - because if the card will not located
at normal addresses it will not VGA - so we will not able to properly
work with it in virtual console mode.
 
> > BTW, we don't need to compare somthing for ncurses - it makes all automatic 
> > & redraw quite nice... At least on my home my new unoptimized ncurses support
> > works much faster than Xs :).. But that's not a surprise :)
> 
> Hmm?  I presume you are using ncurses' internal compare-and-redraw
> algorithm then 8)

Yes :) And it works more than nice.. At least by now i don't whant anything
else :))))

Alexey Pialkin