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From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
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Subject: pcvt 3.00 posted to comp.sources.misc
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Date: 2 Mar 1994 17:19:04 -0800
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The pcvt driver release 3.00 has been posted to comp.sources.misc.

Pcvt is a video/keyboard driver for 386BSD 0.1, NetBSD >= 0.9 (386/486 based)
and FreeBSD >= 1.0.2.

It has:
	- Almost full DEC VT220 Terminal functionality
	- Full Support for MDA, CGA, EGA and VGA display adaptors
	- configurable number of virtual screens on any video board
	- completely independent virtual terminals for any video board
	- (24), 25, 28, 40, or 50 lines for each virtual screen on VGA's
	- (24), 25, 35, or 43 lines for each virtual screen on EGA's
	- Fully remappable keyboard to support national keyboards
	- All VT220 character sets plus ISO Latin-1 and DEC Technical supported 
	- VT220 downloadable character set supported when run on EGA/VGA
	- VT220 user defined keys for each virtual terminal
	- Optional function key label support a 'la Hewlett-Packard
	- Display function codes functionality
	- Optional screen-saving feature
	- support for XFree86 >= 1.2 using the pccons model
	- 132 column operation on:
		o	Tseng Labs ET3000 and ET4000
		o	Western Digital WD90C11
		o	Trident TVGA9000, TVGA8900B, TVGA8900C
		o	Video 7 1024i
		o	S3 80C928 (board dependent)
		o	Cirrus Logic GD542x (board dependent)
	- full multiple virtual screen / multiple X-server support
	  for XFree86 >= 2.0 using the USL-VT/syscons model

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis    HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH    Hamburg, Europe
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