Mistakes & Lies F15

[Alan Cox]

> Vesa is for sort of drawing a picture of what it thinks text mode might look
> like -- if text mode was tiny, illegible, and all et up with unicode.  Vesa
> is not VGA.  There has never been a graphics font that can put 4000
> characters (80x25) on a screen legibly, which is what VGA can do.

Sorry that's false on several grounds

1. There are VGA fonts that are exact copies of the old VGA hardware font

2. Several framebuffers actually are bitmapped and graphics mode and fake
the VGA text mode by rendering pixels behind the back of the OS, You
couldn't tell them apart.

3. Although the Linux kernel framebuffers don't do this you can do
anti-aliasing which gives a smoother and better looking display, at least
in the eyes of the majority of people.

4. The DEC VT220 font was better than the VGA font for this anyway 8)

Alan