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From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
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Subject: Re: sysinstall & KOI8-U font
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 00:29:27 +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> for such changes is. Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK ability to
> change screenmap was introduced to support video hardware with
> some (Russian CP866 in this case) charset in chargen but w/o ability
> to load another symbol table (CGA, Hercules and so on). Nowadays

No, the reason is completely different - broken pseudographics due to
8bit->9bit VGA extension. In VGA adapter pseudographics must be only in
place it currently is in CP437 (866*). In all other places it will be
broken (missing 9th pixel), and there is no possibility to change this
range via VGA registers.

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Andrey A. Chernov
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