Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!focsys!larry
From: larry@focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Xenix/386 and VGA
Message-ID: <178@focsys.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 88 20:52:00 GMT
Reply-To: larry@focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson)
Organization: Focus Automation Systems Inc. Waterloo, Ontario.
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In an earlier posting I mentioned that we are considering putting
a Bell Technologies BLIT processor in a Xenix/386 machine. I should
have mentioned that because the drivers may not be available, we
would like to use a VGA instead. The VGA's performance is adequate
for our first models.

The only thing we really need is 256 grey levels on a 640x480 screen. 
If this can be done with a psuedo VGA card, then we would use that.

Does Xenix 386 support the VGA?  What kind of support does it provide?
Will I be able to issue realatively high level commands to a driver, or
will I have to do low level bit banging to get the job done?

larry



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Larry Williamson                      Focus Automation Systems
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