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Subject: screen base address
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Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 16:53:10 EDT
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    Jim Frost suggests finding the display base address by asking BIOS
for the display mode and then trying B000:0000 or B800:0000 depending
on the result.  This won't work on a Compaq, though, because it uses
a single offset for both the monochrome and color display modes.