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</links>
<body>
<p>The Newcons project is aimed to replace old graphic virtual
terminal named "syscons". The main objectives are: support
Unicode characters and move away from the dependency on fixed
graphic modes (such as VGA and VESA) and built-in services (such
as BIOS).</p>
<p>The Newcons project is aimed to replace the old
<tt>syscons(4)</tt>-based virtual terminals. The main
objectives are: support Unicode characters, and move away from
the dependency on fixed VGA and VESA graphics modes and built-in
BIOS services.</p>
<p>This project was started by Ed Schouten originally, and in 2013
it already featured the following (among many others):</p>
<p>This project was originally started by Ed Schouten, and it
already featured the following (among many others) in 2013:</p>
<ul>
<li>Unicode fonts with Latin, Cyrillic and some more simple
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<li>Unicode output support.</li>
<li>Graphics mode support.</li>
<li>Text mode support.</li>
<li><tt>sysmouse(4)</tt> (without copy-paste) support.</li>
<li><tt>sysmouse(4)</tt> support, without copy/paste.</li>
</ul>
<p>And these has been extended by the following items
<p>And these have been extended by the following items
recently:</p>
<ul>
<li>History, that is, the ability to scroll via terminal
history. Old, separate history buffer has been removed.</li>
<li>History, that is, the ability to scroll through the terminal
history. The old, separate history buffer has been
removed.</li>
<li>The history is implemented by a circular buffer, that is, no buffer
overflow, but unlimited scrolling.</li>
overflow but unlimited scrolling.</li>
<li><tt>VT_PROCESS</tt> mode, a way to hold the terminal. For
examle, X.Org uses this features to prevent the user from
example, X.Org uses this feature to prevent the user from
switching terminals.</li>
<li><tt>drm2/fb_helper</tt>, the KMS driver. This binds Newcons
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<p>This project is being sponsored by The &os; Foundation. Many
thanks to Ed Schouten, who started the Newcons project and did
most work.</p>
most of the work.</p>
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<task>Bug fixes.</task>
<task>Integrate into &os; <tt>HEAD</tt>.</task>
<task>Integrate into &os; <tt>head</tt>.</task>
<task>Integrate into &os;&nbsp;10.0.</task>