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Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console by ansible on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:00AM (#24339529)
I hate the framebuffer console on most of the systems I have.

In some cases, the font is way too small. Changing the font size is confusing, because it isn't clear what size of text you will end up with.

And on some of the systems I have, the framebuffer scrolls so slow!!!!! Drives me up a wall. If it takes more than a tiny fraction of a second to display an entire screen of text, that is too slow!!!! Hate it, hate it, hate it.

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Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console by icedchai on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:25PM (#24343498)
Sun workstation framebuffer consoles were like this. Slow scrolling! I'm thinking mainly of Sun-3's and early SparcStations...
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Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console by Aloha on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:14PM (#24344112)
even on an Ultra 5 I had, it was slow.
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Re:Modernizing the OpenBSD Console by icedchai on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:24PM (#24345861)
Now that I think of it, I have an Ultra 10 rotting in my basement. I haven't turned it on in over 15 years now.
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