[pmmail-list] OT: Display Drivers

[Steve Wendt]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Brian Morrison wrote:

> > The very first OS/2 PM driver I did was also for the 8514/A.  It was
> > 150,000 lines of assembler.  "Complicated" is not an overstatement in
> > any way...
>
> <clang!> Sound of my jaw hitting the floor...
>
> Interesting, so why did IBM make it so complex? Anyway, perhaps best
> taken off list.

One of the few survivors of OS/2 for PPC is the GRADD display driver
architecture.  It's not as complex these days.  ;)


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