It's been around since a few years. And it's being developed further. Seen at
CeBIT.
> > Also btw a modern accelerated card can blit bitmapped fonts and scroll the
> > screen about as fast as a text mode VGA card could. It'll also let you do far
> > more sizes of font and antialias them on the flashest devices.
> That's right, but OTOH I've seen cards (like Diamond Edge 3D) that are
> amazingly fast in gfx mode but the textmode refreshes like it were a 4Mhz XT
> machine... No, thankyou - I mostly work in text mode and I like it that way, I
> just hope it won't have gone with a wind...
> Try to understand my point - not everyone needs antialiased fonts, italics,
> 1000 fonts and nice looking icons (I'm not saying it's bad!) to do ones job.
My personal view is more like this:
1. support text mode on machines that have text mode
2. emulate (and perform well) text mode on machines that don't have it
So I wouldn't say you _have_ to use method 2, only when you can't use method 1.
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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