Yet another VT-100 emulator

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>>   >> As far as I know there are no **STANDARD** PC text video modes
>>   >>that give 132 columns.
>>   >
>>   > What was *standard* for the time of these cards?
>>
>> 80*25 and 40*25.
>>
>>   >....I have a couple of Everex MicroEnhancer EGA boards with a
>>   >boatload of additional modes....
>>
>> So what?
> 
> So, there's a lot of cards out there that do 132 column mode.  Back when 
> I actually used text-mode (in Linux), almost every machine I tried with 
> a PCI VGA card had some 132xblah video modes.

These cards can't really be considered VGA.  They're actually SVGA, and 
it's a de-facto standard for SVGA cards to produce the Hercules 
resolutions without complaint.  A real VGA won't.  At least it won't on 
any of the first-generation VGA machines I have in the pile.

Peace...  Sridhar