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 Message-ID: <Mutt.19970219095327.regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <19970218214241.GQ48138@@>; from Pierre Beyssac on Feb 18, 1997 21:42:41 %2B0100 References: <199702180500.VAA00752@lightside.com> <19970218214241.GQ48138@@>
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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 ]-
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