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Old 15th March 2009
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unixbsd, In the past I've tried the 80x50 OpenBSD text console, and I feel your pain. I think the basic problem results from the limiations of plain vanilla VGA. At best you have 640x480 screen resolution. So if you want, say, 50 lines on the screen, you have 480/50 = about 9 pixels per char vertically. If you want 128 columns, you have 640/128 = 5 pixels per char horizontal. 9x5 just isn't enough resolution to draw a nice looking character set.

If it is important, more flexibility for this kind of feature is offered by other OS's, even within the BSD family.
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