Re: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2)

Aaron M. Ucko (amu@mit.edu)
14 Dec 1997 13:39:01 -0500


Tuomas Heino <tbittih@xgw.fi> writes:

> Maybe so in the kernel level - I still remember switching between 80x25
> "normal" console and 80x50 dosemu... that's just a font change, no timing
> changes... (nowadays using svgatextmode - different modes for different
> consoles would prolly be quite complicated with something like that, right?;)

dosemu plays with the video hardware directly.

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