Xenix shared/video memory

John F. Haugh II jfh at rpp386.UUCP
Wed Jun 15 11:24:24 AEST 1988


In article <307 at marob.MASA.COM> samperi at marob.MASA.COM (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>How does one attach video memory (say, 0xB8000...) to the address
>space of a process via the shared memory IPC facilities (the AT&T-
>style ones) in the SCO Xenix environment?

under the version of SCO Xenix running here, you open the /dev/<video board>
device and throw some IOCTL's at it.  what you get back seems to work
Just Fine(tm) as an address.

- john.
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