Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:06:51 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: VGA BIOS memoriala Message-ID: <199609010136.LAA08395@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199608312012.NAA00378@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 31, 96 01:12:26 pm
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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 [[
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