RE: Microwindows for Hercules
No need. MicroWindows handles the Bresenham algorithm in the mid level code in devdraw.c. It uses successive calls to drawpixel to make it work. Hmm. A 8086 isn't quite a PC on which you want to loose performance. And that's exactly what you're doing here. PutPixel is a short routine and you loose way to much time if you don't inline it... In this way, people like you and me don't have to rewrite bresenham for every card someone wants You wouldn't have to rewrite it for every -CARD-, you would have to re- write it for every BIT-DEPTH. Which isn't that much work anyway. Chipzz AKA Jan Van Buggenhout -- UNIX isn't dead - It just smells funny [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: kernel fission was: msdos/umsdos support?
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: I am very eneasy about going down any road that involves the use of far pointers. The compiler is currently pretty stable, and the system is getting there which is quite remarkable given that we have no real memory protection. If we start adding new features to the compiler or shift over to another one, or start widely using far pointers, I am worried that we lose the stability we have worked for so long to achieve. So you wanna stay here forever? Hmmm, not a good idea IMVHO.. We'll have to do far pointers SOME TIME, we can't put it off forever can we? IMVHO, if we don't have Far pointers, you might as well use DOS. There you DO have support. But that's not my intention... In any case we lose nothing by building a test implementation. IMVHO we do: We lose time. Progress on ELKS is slow enough as it is all- ready :-/. I intend to have a go at this and intend to have the bulk of the code written by the end of next week. Al Just my 0.02 Euro anyway... Chipzz AKA Jan Van Buggenhout -- UNIX isn't dead - It just smells funny [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: Kernel 2.2.0 too big on RH5.2 system...
Hence the misguided questions. The real question is: what should we do about it? Politely redirect them to the correct place? Shout at them? Rename our list? Regards, Jakob Eriksson What could be done, is by the administrator of majordomo: add a comment to the list of mailinglists, stating that 8086 != 80x86, so anyone requesting a list to see what lists may be apropriate (how do you spell this?) would see that this list is not suited. That way, we don't have to rename this list. Just my 0.02 Euro anyway... Chipzz AKA Jan Van Buggenhout -- UNIX isn't dead - It just smells funny [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
