Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote on 2002-09-11 02:46 UTC: > - Number of characters, few hundreds is apparently too small for > worldwide usage.
The IBM PC text video modes are an utterly obsolete anachronism of the days of 4 MHz CPUs and 4 kB video graphic cards. It would do far more good than harm if Linux removed support for the graphic cards text modes entirely, thereby eliminating the major reason for any 256/512 character limit. Linux doesn't run any more on machines, where the text video modes provide any noticeable performance benefit. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
