Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 21:07:29 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, (Jamil J. Weatherbee) <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: RE: BIOS information preservation (was Re: >64MB) Message-ID: <XFMail.971031210729.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <199711010406.OAA00828@word.smith.net.au>
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Hi Mike Smith; On 01-Nov-97 you wrote:
> > Work on calling BIOS calls via VM86(). Get that working, and
> > dozens of people will be happy to correct the problem for you.
>
> I'm doing that today (but screwed because I'm out of paper and *&^%*&^
> Micorosoft post Word documents and pretend that they're RTF, so I can't
> *read* the suckers). (*)
>
> Anyone likely to complain if I add a new datastructure to i386/bios.c
> and
> start populating it with stuff that various parts of the system glean
> about the BIOS environment? Or should I be using a procedural lookup
> interface for this?
>
> eg. either:
>
> foo = i386biosinfo->bios_memsize;
>
> or
>
> error = i386biosinfo("memsize", &foo)
Either way, I'd love it. I need such facility BADLY.
> * Terry, I believe you mentioned that some Microsoft Developer package
> contained sources for the Word Viewer, or something similar. Would
> there be any chance of crossing this with a Win32-on-unix environment
> like that from Willows or Bristol to get a FreeBSD Word Viewer? I'm
> sick beyond belief of having to find a copy of Word and 2-300 sheets
> of paper just to read these banal "standard" documents.
I'dd love that too! All our corporate mail is on M$ Worst... Yuck!
>
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