> 	Is it possible to have a small piece of code that turns memory
> 	management off, passes a character to the prom routines, then
> 	turns it on again and returns to the calling function.
> 	Might be tortuously slow, but if its not that difficult to
> 	implement it at least gets people up and running...
> 
Yes, and that was actually done by Bertram when he wrote the VS2K
support. The reason it didn't go int the main tree was that I
had plans to do a fast fix for text on graphic console, which
was never done. Note that I still have plans for a "fast" fix :-)

-- Ragge