On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Colin Davidson wrote:
> > Display adapters should be OK for hardware sharing when they are in
> > full-screen, exclusive mode. However it turns to be video
> > hardware-dependent, so maybe it was not so good idea of mine.
>
> The problem with full screen display adapters is that you have to restore
> them when you switch to the (an-?)other OS. This is very card-dependent and
> non-trivial. But don't apologize for your idea, it has sparked an enormous
> amount of very useful thinking.
>
How about full-screen VGA then? It's card-independent and to swicth back
to host OS it probably could be possible to reinit GUI's vmode and redraw
the whole desktop. Though I realize that perhaps nobody is interested in
fast, full-screen VGA..
Uhus
