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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: VP/ix; fooling the driver
Message-ID: <1884@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 89 13:52:01 GMT
References: <6598@tank.uchicago.edu>
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <6598@tank.uchicago.edu> goer@sophist.UUCP (Richard Goerwitz) writes:
| Since the offscreen facility is only possible with a Hercules, MDA,
| or CGA, I wonder:  If one has a video adaptor that can emulate these
| cards is it possible to fool the system into thinking that there is
| a CGA or MDA installed when running VP/ix?

  I haven't found it, but if you want to run a text application you can
call your own machine via serial or TCP, then run vpix as if you were a
serial line. Bizarre, but it allows slow stuff to run in the background
on an inactive virtual terminal.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon