At 2:45 PM -0700 9/17/01, Randy Beaudreault wrote:
>>Hi-
>>
>>When you boot NetBSD, the background color is white and the text is
>>black.  Is there any way to change this on the mac68k and macppc ports?
>>I think a black or blue background with white text might be more
>>appealing ... can you change fonts too?  Thanks.
>>
>>Paul Lorah
>
>It's a Mac.  Why would you want to be like DOS or, even worse, a 
>dumb terminal?  Black text on a white background is better than what 
>you suggest since I have tried white on black when using MacSSH to 
>ssh into my NetBSD IIci and Q800.  This is just my opinion though.

I think black on white is only better if the refresh rate is high 
enough.  The 66 Hz rate that OF defaults to on many machines isn't 
quite high enough for me and white on black minimizes flicker.
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