Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 02:03:32 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcvt/132 columns Message-ID: <199702191003.CAA04346@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:52:01 %2B0100." <Mutt.19970219095201.regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk>
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>From The Desk Of Philippe Regnauld : > Michael Smith (msmith) ecrit/writes: > > > > The SVGATextmode stuff had been done for FreeBSD, and if I thought it > > was worth the effort, I'd try to help Soren get it working. As it is, > > a $60 PCI video card gives more than enough X grunt for snazzy text modes > > to be a complete waste of time. > > Right you are. But even though we workstation-monitor weenies may > be on the way to extinction, in the meantime: > > a) It's nice to have 10200 (170x60) chars on the screen when you code > in text mode (with moused, it's even better -- see below) Huh, I think is nice to have 6 virtual screens at 1020x768 all accesible by either clicking on a pane or just scrolling the mouse. The console stuff is great but I got tell you I hardly ever use it I just boot the system and go straight to X. In fact now days , I just run X in 32bit mode. Cheers, Amancio
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