On Fri, 9 May 1997, Rick Byers wrote:

> On Fri, 9 May 1997, Graham, James wrote:
> 
> > The SPARC port comes close -- the only difference is that the SPARC
> > consoles don't have a separate graphics and text mode.

Right; they're always in `graphics' mode, from a x86 user's perspective.

> I'd also be worried about the performance.

That's definitely the problem I'd be concerned about.  I can imagine some
hack to use the BIOS this way, but it's so ugly that I'd rather not. :-}

--scott