It was supposed to be able to handle consoles with different
	text/graphics modes as well as more traditional sun like
	'framebuffer' devices, plus support for multiple heads etc..

	As far as I am aware NetBSD/alpha uses an early version of
	wscons, someone had a working i386 version and the hp300 port
	is supposed to be moving across at some point.

		David/absolute

	   Raise your standards and lower your expectations...
	            and we'll get along just fine.

On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Robert Black wrote:

> On Feb 9,  1:03pm, David Brownlee wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Generic console device ?
> > 	I believe the alpha port can use PCI VGA cards (though they
> > 	can only runs consoles on generic PCI VGA cards as of yet),
> > 	is there any chance of help from that angle?
> >
> > 	Also - is NetBSD/arm32 going to be using the wscons code?
> 
> Not as far as I know. Does it have any particularly good features?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Rob
>