> > without KGI/GGI getting much involved. If you want to support Japanese on
> > the console I suspect it will also be somewhat useful (text mode is a bit
> > small in fonts).
>
> I've seen linux text-mode emulation on ultra-sparcs. There are not
> many machines faster than ultra. It is *slow* compared to my 486 with
> VGA. Even if you turn of hw scrolling on VGA it starts to be too
> slow... I still think that text mode is good idea...
Me too. It's fast, doesn't litter the screen and (at good clock rate) is much
better for your eyes that gfx (and that's not a minor problem...)
later, marek
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