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Subject: Re: vgalib for FreeBSD! 
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 06:23:06 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> However I'm willing to put some work into a library for doing
> the generic modes via syscons (In fact I allready have one :) )

Yea!

I agree with Amancio that lopping off the bottom half of X would be a
really cool general solution, but let's face it - it's also a solution
that will likely never happen and is therefore not something I'd like
to bet the farm on.  Add complexity to the solution and you also add
to the calendar ship date! :-)

I'd like something that simply gave me basic line graphics in 320x200
resolution or so.  Then I could go implement all those cool GUI objects
I've been talking about with a dynamic rendering model that allows
fall-back to ncurses character graphics rendering in a pinch.

					Jordan