Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 1998 22:49:38 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Marek Habersack wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > > > may be graphical, but there are many tasks that can be done in text mode just > > > fine. > > > > Cyrix MediaGX - next question. > Never seen it... ;-(
It's been around since a few years. And it's being developed further. Seen at CeBIT.
> > Also btw a modern accelerated card can blit bitmapped fonts and scroll the > > screen about as fast as a text mode VGA card could. It'll also let you do far > > more sizes of font and antialias them on the flashest devices. > That's right, but OTOH I've seen cards (like Diamond Edge 3D) that are > amazingly fast in gfx mode but the textmode refreshes like it were a 4Mhz XT > machine... No, thankyou - I mostly work in text mode and I like it that way, I > just hope it won't have gone with a wind... > Try to understand my point - not everyone needs antialiased fonts, italics, > 1000 fonts and nice looking icons (I'm not saying it's bad!) to do ones job.
My personal view is more like this:
1. support text mode on machines that have text mode 2. emulate (and perform well) text mode on machines that don't have it
So I wouldn't say you _have_ to use method 2, only when you can't use method 1.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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