> > Hmm - I'm not all that sure on how these interact though...
> > [grabbing from 'console' source]
> >
> > VGA/text can handle up to 512 characters (some can handle more though -
>
> Yes, but at the expense of having only 8 background colors.
Only 8 _foreground_ colors. I would happily sacrifice background
colors, but not having bold characters hurts.
> > eg. Trident-8900 can handle 2048 characters AFAIK)
Hmm - how? I would like to see that!
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