> > may be graphical, but there are many tasks that can be done in text mode just
> > fine.
>
> Cyrix MediaGX - next question.
Never seen it... ;-(
> 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.
> > > Text mode is complex, because it requires extra hardware.
> > Eh? It uses the same hardware what gfx mode.
>
> No it uses indirect lookups into bitmap tables, text mode is really complex
> stuff compared with simply clocking your DRAM out thru DACs and getting
> the sync pulses in the right spots.
But still it is the same hardware. It's more complex due to the textmode
weirdness but still its the same hw, no extras needed.
> > No. One day we will all use WinModems and GUI printers - yeah, right....
>
> GDI printers work very well with ghostscript.
Why, yes! But where's a point of making a postscript file and print it with
ghostscript when all I need is to print a text-only readme? GDI printere are
just another M$ idea to tie the hardware vendors and software users to
windoze.
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