Re: Linear VGA RAM possible?

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From: Christopher Hecker
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 05:21

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No, you can't remap the memory so that it looks linear.  There was some
talk on BIX a while back about using the paging registers in concert
with the mmu on the 386 to do this, but the speed hit wouldn't be worth
the programming simplicity you would gain.

Chris

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