Re: the Courier font family and nroff history

2024-04-12 Thread James K. Lowden
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:27:54 -0500 "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > Yes, I reckon trapping into the kernel for every byte (or pair of > bytes) written to the screen would indeed have eaten all your > performance, and been pointless when there was no access protection in > any part of the address sp

Re: the Courier font family and nroff history

2024-04-12 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-04-12T01:27:58-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Why not use one register for the character and one for the attributes? Please disregard that sentence. What I was trying to say was, "why not use one (16-bit) register for the text and attributes instead of the lower 8-bit halves of 2 diff