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From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop
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> It will be running on a virtual console in text or
> graphics mode like
> TurboVision used to, but we are focusing on text
> mode for now. As I just
> wrote to someone else, the main idea is to enable
> BSD programs to have a
> nice console (textual and graphical) interface with
> and without any windows
> system. So I could have a standalone program that

Thst would be great to have and extend to a
full-fledged GUI interface as X is overkill for lots
of people. BTW -does it use drivers for graphics
accelerator cards?

thanks
-kamal

> looks like an X program
> for example but runs on a virtual console without X.
> Or I could have the
> program run in a desktop environment with other
> programs without changing a
> single line of code or recompiling the program.
> 
> Cheers
> 
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Kamal R. Prasad
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kamalp@acm.org

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