Cyrix MediaGX - next question.
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.
> > 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.
> No. One day we will all use WinModems and GUI printers - yeah, right....
GDI printers work very well with ghostscript.
Alan
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