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Old 28th December 2010
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OpenBSD's console on i386/amd64 is configured by the BIOS, vga(4) text-mode is a bitmap font embedded in your video cards firmware.

It's not a graphical framebuffer as is used on other systems, it can't display complex graphics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_compatible_text_mode
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