[rescue] Re: SPARC memory query

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:10:21PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 10:34 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >I don't know.  I just seems to me that the real standard is that one 
> >can
> >count on VGA, or the subset of MCA, CGA, and EGA that VGA supports, and
> >one can count on the BIOS, and that really all of these things might be
> >flakey since they arent exactly real standards.
> 
>   The "PC compatibility" requirements also require some low-level 
> stuff...the way interrupts and DMA work, A20 madness, etc.  For how 
> many years did the "640K barrier" severely hamper PC hardware and 
> software development?  Quite a few...spawning such horrid abortions as 
> LIM Expanded Memory (an ancient and slow windowed bank-switching 
> scheme) and crap like that.

Oh the pain.  Your causing flash backs.  I was so happy when I was
turned towards DJGPP.

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Joshua D. Boyd