Re: Q: amount of display

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From: Cyberman
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:33

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     -=> Rajiv Sud spoke of "Q: amount of display memo" <=-
    To All at 07-28-92  21:22
 RS> Anyone out there know how to find out the amount of display memory
 RS> available on a PC when using Turbo-c? The setvisualpage, et al calls
 RS> allow one to access different display memory pages. How does one figure
 RS> out how many display memory pages are available for use?

Different VGA cards handle this differently.  Basically they have
some readable io location that will help in determining this.
Unfortunately this is highly hardware dependant.

        Stephen Cyberman@Toz.Buffalo.NY.US
        Scripted at Wed  07-29-1992  13:55:34

... If you're not sure you're right, yell!
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