Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:21:00 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Mark E. wrote:

> > Since the above code cares about the video buffer address, maybe it
> > needs that code as well?  
> 
> Color support requires direct video access, so from your description it 
> probaby does.

Actually, I rather liked the idea of doing everything through the BIOS: 
that way, it works in graphics mode as well (at least for the graphics 
modes supported by the BIOS).  This means programs which use termios not 
necessarily lose automatically when the screen is put into graphics mode.