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from: `Jasen Betts`
date: 1999-03-06 00:00:00
subject: DPMI, VESA 2.0 and LFB

FP> VESA 2.0 in protected mode. Now, i am not sure that it is possible.
FP> i used unit NewFrontier (v 6.0) with BP7 but the function 800 of DPMI
FP> is not supported by the borland implementation.
FP> i don't know how to create a selector with physical address base of
FP> F8000000 and a size of 4M.
FP> Anyone has some ideas ?

NOPE, BP only does '286 protected mode ("16 bit"). so it's not real easy to
access a selector pointed there 'cause 286 pro-mode only goes to 16Megs.
of course you coule possibly get the EMS driver to re-map that range to
somewhere inside the address space of the pascal prog.
                        
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