A 1400x1050 desktop monitor is so huge that with a framebuffer console, text browsing is realistic. I laughed out loud when I saw it doing 8x16 VGA console - stty reported a console with 176 columns and something like 67 rows 8) I recompiled so the bigget Sun console font was used from the start. The penguin is still miniscule though. This was a quantum leap beyond 1024. I use 1600 on the monitor head and this isn't a big leap over 1400. I guess the next quantum is somewhere around 1900. In a formula

1400/1024 * 1400 = 1914

-drl

PS - I want to see how small I can make an xconsole font at 1400 and have it still readable. That would be a good contest, the largest readable X-term. Collaboration between machines would be allowed. A recursive listing of / has to fit on one screen.