From:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT praline DOT no DOT NeoSoft DOT com>
Subject:	Re: DJGPP
To:	b8003054 AT nas05 DOT kpi DOT edu DOT tw
Date:	Tue, 2 May 1995 14:15:05 -0500 (CDT)
Cc:	KM5M AT c53000 DOT petrobras DOT anrj DOT br, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> The address of video RAM is re-mapped to the address 0xe0000000. If you want
> to access the video RAM, you can use the pointer 0xe00b8000.

Don't do this, use dosmem*() routines or <sys/farptr.h>

This method does not work under Dpmi hosts (like qdpmi, windows, os/2, etc)
and won't work at all in a few months when V2 is released.

Just say NO to 0xe0000000 addressing!

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