Quote:
Originally Posted by Thomas Richter
It's a big pile of mess. Later VGA chipsets allow "linear access", but the early ones don't.
|
What does this actually mean? PDOS/386 comes with a "vga driver" that directly accesses 0xb8000. I wouldn't have thought it was technically possible to prevent an 80386 from doing that and demanding that it is accessed via segment : offset real mode instead.