In article <199803240641.WAA26889@baloo.ucsc.edu> you write:
> 	I'm in favor of a new console package,  as long as I can still use it
> on i386 machines with monochrome displays or vga cards in text mode.  Also,
> serial consoles ought to continue to work as well.
> Just wanted to ground this discussion.

[please trim your quoting!]

wscons doesn't affect anything WRT serial consoles, as far as I can see,
and does support vga cards in text mode.  Ancient PC display types (CGA,
MDA, etc) I can't tell about.  I hope so, as I have a CGA card in my
router :-)