Re: So near but....
Matti E. Aarnio [OH1MQK] (mea@mea.cc.utu.fi)
Tue, 15 Aug 1995 19:55:39 +0300 (EET DST)
> > Getting SVGA cards into VGA compatibility mode is, unfortunately,
> > card-specific. This is normally done automatically by the card's
> > BIOS. However, MILO does not have an x86 emulator (yet?), so it has
> > to know about each and every card that it supports.
>
> Does a 386 need to be emulated, or will an 8088 suffice? Not that I can
> produce either, but I am interested in the size of the task.
The BIOS-code is supposedly 8086/8088, but some code-writers
try to be clever.. PCI-bus BIOSes are likely to be 80386
capable, though likely to be executed in 8086 mode. PCI-bus
is used only with 486 and Pentium, as far as Intel documents
and existing machines show any example -- well, of PCs..
> Jim
/Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>