Comment by simmons

I have a distinct memory of very early Linux kernels being able to use higher-resolution native VGA text modes. This would have been around the early 1992 / Linux 0.12 time frame. After being used to my PC showing 80x25 text in MS-DOS, the skinny letters and information-packed display made Linux look like something from the future. :) I suppose it was just a feature of some VGA cards around that time, and Linus decided to support it for a while. The computer historian in me sometimes wonders whatever happened to it.