From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 31 18:38:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA29925 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 18:38:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA29918 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 18:38:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA08395; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:06:51 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199609010136.LAA08395@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: VGA BIOS memoriala To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:06:51 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608312012.NAA00378@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 31, 96 01:12:26 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > You're right, it's a cheap generalization. > > I should have said "hired to design the card/driver interface". > > Diamond scred this up. > > ATI screwed this up. > > Matrox screwed this up. > > Everyone screwed this up. > > I don't know one company who built the card so that the external data > references were usable without the external code entry points. > > Well, except IBM ABIOS, and they cheated by making the BIOS callable > from protected mode. Eagle (an australian company). produced a line of cards back when the C&T451 was pretty hot stuff; they severely hacked the C&T BIOS, and went so far as to give the source code to anyone who asked for it. Not surprisingly, they seem to have gone out of business 8( > Terry Lambert -- ]] 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 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[