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SubjectRe: Console handling (was: Re: Let's vote for PnP on 2.2)
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> 
> `Linux' may have not, but `Linux/m68k' has been during the last 2 years!
>
> > Maybe so in the kernel level - I still remember switching between 80x25
> > "normal" console and 80x50 dosemu... that's just a font change, no timing
> > changes... (nowadays using svgatextmode - different modes for different
> > consoles would prolly be quite complicated with something like that, right?;)
>
> It's not _that_ difficult. We did it.
>
> It's also nice for multi-head support, since you don't want to use the same
> size of console on a 14" and a 17" monitor. Yes, `Linux/m68k' does support
> this too!! ;-)
>

It's a pain to do on VGA hardware, however.

-hpa

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