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At present we supply some of our customers with portrait displays. We're
investigating the possibilities of using (relatively) commercially-
available hardware instead of the custom kit we use now.

A monitor manufacturer is prepared to supply us with a suitable monitor,
but he's not prepared to alter the electronics, so the scan lines will
now be vertical. [I can see that this would make life easier all round
in so far as the frame buffer won't have to change either].

However, we're now faced with modifying the server to cope with the new
scheme of things. I've had a quick look, and it seems to be a fairly major
port; and a lot of code in mfb (and cfb) is going to be inefficient if
scanlines don't map naturally onto bytes &c in the frame buffer.

Any experiences, words of wisdom (or warning!), or pointers to
implementations would be much appreciated.

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Simon Wright
Ferranti International, Naval Systems