On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:31:14AM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:

 > > BTW, I think rasterconsole on VGA is fast enough. It had been used
 > > on Japanese version MS-DOS about 7 years ago with ~25MHz 486.
 > > It was actually faster than 20MHz 68030 ;-)
 > 
 > 	A 25MHz 486 is a heavy amount of CPU compared to some NetBSD
 > 	boxes - 16Mhz 68020 hp300s and sub MIP VAXstation IIs, both of
 > 	which have graphics consoles, and should be able to benefit from
 > 	this code.

Huh?  The hp300 port already uses a graphics console, obviously, and
vga-specific raster console code isn't going to affect how e.g. the
hp300 displays characters.  (Most hp300 displays have hardware accel,
BTW.)

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