23 Jan
2010
23 Jan
'10
12:18 p.m.
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Something I've wondered about is if there were
*any* character-mode
(text) display cards produced with proportional spacing capability.
Wasn't NEC supposed to have a display chip to do that? (not the
7220).
Hercules made a card that could handle various font widths and
heights, but it was still a monospaced display.
Creating and maintaining a graphic display for text requires more
work than a text display, so there might have been some motivation.
Certainly, in software, not in text mode..
The regular Hercules MGA could do 720 x 348? graphics, and there were
drivers for Ventura, Windows 3.10, PCPaint, etc.