From: Peter MacDonald <pmacdona@tadpole.bcsc.gov.bc.ca> Subject: Re: Can you access a virtual console directly? Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 20:47:14 GMT
It's funny you should mention this, cause a few months ago, due to
curses not allowing extended chars, I wrote a patch to do this
and sent it promptly to Linus for his approval. Fortunately,
he ignored them and left them to rust, because it turned out
to be one of the more hair-brained ideas I have had. Why?
because load-testing showed them to be anywhere from 2-5 times slower
than the console code, and far less flexible. Take it from experience,
if you want a good project to do, fix curses to allow extended chars
like the box chars (if it isn't fixed already).
Peter
pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
PS: Don't ask me for the old patches, as I jettisoned them into space a
few hundred orbits ago.