On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> One other quick thing for the sake of discussion.... I was inquiring
> in the VAX list about the possibility of increasing the font size in
> terminal mode for us mypic geriatric types.  When I loaded Ultrix up,
> it made that switch automatically on the pmax.  Is it possible, somewhere
> to force the graphics output into a large font mode of say 36 lines x
> 96 chars, rather than the 58 lines x 132 chars (or whatever it is).
> That would be a nice feature for us Mr. Magoo types.

The font can be changed using the FONT_* options in the kernel
configuration - just leave in the one that you want and take out the
others. The screen width is clamped to 80 characters in
sys/arch/pmax/dev/rcons.c (look for rasops_init). Change this to something
stupid (like 5000) if you want to use the full screen.

Good candidate for a pmax-specific kernel option, actually.