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From: Thomas Zenker <thz@tuebingen.netsurf.de>
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Subject: Re: PCVT's death
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On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 10:54:11PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> In reply to Faried Nawaz who wrote:
> > sos@FreeBSD.ORG (Sxren Schmidt) writes:
> >   
> >   Try broadening your mind a bit then, and see what "the competition" 
> >   offers. The console device is much more that just an emulator...
> >   
> >   Well I guess there is no point in argueing this, we will see what
> >   the future brings...
> > 
> > It would help if you enumerated what syscons offers now and will offer in
> > the (near) future.
> 
> On top of my head there is (in no particular order):
> 
> Generalized mouse support (done).
> Cut&paste on text screens (done).
> Accent keys (dead keys) (done).
> Bitmap display (partly done, 800x600 display on VESA cards).
> Simple graphics primitive library.
> 
> To come:
> VESA modes (text & graphics).
> Multi-head consoles.
> Emulator & ioctl as modules (ie very small X only console, or vt100 emu).
> Simple GUI library.
> USB keyboard support.
> 

This is all nice for a play station, but for "real work" we need a good
really working vt100 emulation. FreeBSD is getting too fat anyway.

Thomas Zenker

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