->>	About a year ago, Bertram made available code to make boot blocks
->>that talked to the graphics console on a VS2000. They worked fine; the hangup
->>was when the kernel enabled memory mapping - this screwed up (as I recall)
->>access to the graphics I/O routines in ROM. This necessitated the redirection
->>of console I/O to one of the serial ports, in the kernel. (Bertram, if I
->>remember incorrectly, feel free to jump in and correct me :-) Neither he nor
->>I saw any easy way around this, so we haven't fixed it :-( 
->
->I have a feeling that some (perhaps all) of these console output routines only
->work with memory mapping off, I'll try to remember to check the manuals tonight. 

	Umm, OK, but how does (e.g.) VMS get around this?? Perhaps VMS contains
its own code for console output, independent of the ROM code? Curious minds,
you know :-))

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