Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekfdi!videovax!dougs
From: dougs@videovax.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why no graphics in text mode?
Summary: How does Desqview produce simultaneous text and graphic mode?
Message-ID: <5682@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 17 Jan 90 19:59:58 GMT
References: <25820@cup.portal.com> <206900161@prism>
Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
Lines: 10

In article <206900161@prism>, rob@prism.TMC.COM writes:
>    It's possible - difficult and hardware-specific, but possible - to 
> put graphics on the screen in text mode by reprogramming the character set
> ...

Desqview can simultaneously display one window with true graphics-mode
graphics, and another with text-mode text. I would REALLY like to know
how to do this.

(Incidentally, this is on a VGA system, 640 x 480)