From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: fats VESA bank switch
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 18:58:32 +0000
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Sérgio Vale e Pace writes:
>    What is faster, bank switch trought interrupt or switch to real 
>mode and use the direct routine.

I don't think it will make any difference which method you use, because
they will both be very slow. To do fast bank switching you need to use
the VBE 2.0 protected mode code stubs, which can be copied into your own
address space and then called directly.


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