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From: spiesman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (SPIESMAN, BILL)
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Subject: Re: VP/ix woes
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Date: 10 Oct 90 20:31:21 GMT
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When I had trouble getting some aplications to work under VP/ix,
I bothered SCO until they finally said that, in general, anything
that depends on its own device driver will fail under VP/ix. VP/ix
will not allow direct I/O to the video adapter. When you run such
a program, the video display will freeze as long as you are trying to
do the direct I/O.


Bill Spiesman
spiesman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov