Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console
by formerly_proven on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:01AM
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At least on pictures HP 9000 / HP-UX "boot scroll" looks the nicest: https://blog.pizzabox.computer/img/hp712/hpux-init.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/HP...
Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console
by abrookewood on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:51PM
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If I recall correctly, there was an article on HN not so long ago about Carmack discovering BSD. Edit: found it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23224584
s/discovering/committing to/
Carmack has been aware of and actively involved in UNIX systems for a long time now. This isn't a recent discovery. However it has been recently noticed that he's committing to OpenBSD.
Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console
by notaplumber on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @08:38AM
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Contributing to OpenBSD, not committing. He is not a committer.. yet.
Apologies, I hadn't realised there were a distinction. What's the difference?
I guess it's about having a direct commit access to their CVS tree.
Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console
by notaplumber on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:03PM
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Precisely. OpenBSD developers have committed John's diffs.
> you'd think Apple would be the first one to fix this…
To be fair, they have one of the very few terminal apps that support double-width/height characters and that passes the VT torture test with flying colors.
I mean, I would think this would just be using a larger font size for their bitmap, no?
Apple's terminal doesn't seem to use a specific bitmap codepath - it renders the characters at a doubled size for DECDHL and it looks like it stretches the geometry of the font horizontally for DECDWL.
While it's not quite related to consoles, I've noticed that the non-GUI interface to a lot of operating systems often don't get a lot of love. Linux has had a fairly nice boot scroll, but I think part of that is because it's become an icon and as such is part of the public face of the OS; but on macOS for example it's an tiny awful experience because the text doesn't scale to 2x (you'd think Apple would be the first one to fix this…) and the output isn't well formatted at all–it's just the various subsystems spewing text as they start up. And a lot of modern systems use kind of old fonts that in many cases seemed to be picked as an afterthought…