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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!ivie From: ivie@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD questions Message-ID: <1993Jul12.133926.69919@cc.usu.edu> Date: 12 Jul 93 13:39:26 MDT References: <CA1FBq.76q@rex.uokhsc.edu> Organization: Utah State University Lines: 17 In article <CA1FBq.76q@rex.uokhsc.edu>, ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes: > -Are there any plans for virtual screens (ala Linux)? I found them > pretty handy when I tried Linux out a while back. One thing about Linux > is that the terminal drivers feels much faster. Most UNIX consoles have > pretty slow consoles (they expect you to scoot right on into X), but > Linux felt like direct writes to video RAM. Most UNIX consoles are direct writes of pixels to video RAM. PCs have character mode video in addition to graphics mode, so it's quicker to toss the characters around; you only have to scroll 2KB of data instead of god-knows-how-many MB. Of course, you could also just juggle the start and end registers of the 6845, and only have to clear a line when you scroll... Roger Ivie ivie@cc.usu.edu