From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 19 00:53:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA12964 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:53:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from deepo.prosa.dk ([193.89.187.27]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA12959 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:53:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.4/prosa-1.1) id JAA07172; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:53:27 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:53:27 +0100 From: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld) To: pb@fasterix.freenix.fr (Pierre Beyssac) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns References: <199702180500.VAA00752@lightside.com> <19970218214241.GQ48138@@> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A i386 In-Reply-To: <19970218214241.GQ48138@@>; from Pierre Beyssac on Feb 18, 1997 21:42:41 +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Pierre Beyssac (pb) ecrit/writes: > > Actually, I've recently been told that the Sun framebuffer _has_ > a much faster built-in text mode and it is used by Linux/SPARC. > I haven't seen it myself (I'm not sure if it's a real text mode, > maybe they just reimplemented bitmap characters in C). I don't know about Sparcs, but you could get a small program in C for old 3 and 3x (sconsole ?) that would speed up by a factor of 2-5 the console. -- -- Phil -[ Philippe Regnauld / Systems Administrator / regnauld@prosa.dk ]- -[ Location.: +55.4N +11.3E PGP Key: finger regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk ]-