Subject: Re: WSCONS on i386
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/01/1998 19:19:12
David Brownlee writes:
> Just curious, but is there any reason why WSCONS isn't the default
> for i386 -current - pcvt could still be left around for those that
> have problems with wscons. Is there some hardware that wscons does
> not yet support?

I don't think it is a support issue.

Rumor is that wscons is still much slower than pcvt, though.

We probably should make it the default, however, if only to force
people to start using it.

Perry