Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/12/23/09:08:12
> What does a driver do for you? Does it improve productivity? Does it make your
> code more portable?
It lets you do bank switching on non-vesa cards, or with faster
methods than vesa calls.
> Isn't there too much over head of using some
> external program? Is it linked into you program or something?
It's pulled in at runtime as a subroutine.
> Why do DJGPP graphics drivers end in "grn"? isn't "drv" more intuitive?
"drv" just means driver. Driver for what? "grd" meant graphics
driver, "grn" means GRaphics driver New.
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