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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:34:28 +0200
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Hi Adam,

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 4:29 PM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> And vgacon has code that looks like it can do CGA and MDA (redundant with
> mdacon?), either of which I haven't used in... quite a while.  Might be
> tricky getting access to such hardware to test...

Mdacon is meant to be used next to vgacon, for systems with both color and
monochrome graphics adapters.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds