Re: console resolution
On 2010-01-22 at 18:11:38 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> PIII 650MHz - 386M of RAM - ATI Rage Mobility (Mach64).
That is *lightning fast* compared to my slowest machine,
a PII 266 MHz with a very slow hard drive. And the saddest
thing is, until about three years ago, it was my fastest machine!
The bottom line is this: with a true text-mode virtual console,
the conversion of characters to pixels on the screen is done in
the video hardware itself. The main CPU doesn't have to do it.
That's what the video card's text mode is designed to do, and it
does it very well. In graphics mode the conversion from characters
to pixels is done by the main CPU chip. My philosophy is to let
the video hardware do what it was designed to do and free the
main CPU chip for other uses. There are times when graphics mode
is needed, of course. But editing text or perusing text isn't
one of them.
To each his own.
Peace.
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