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		programble on Sept 11, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a Tetris Clone in X86 Assembly, Pt. Ⅰ: He... It is indeed the default BIOS font. You usually get it when switching to a TTY on Linux, as well.

cnvogel on Sept 13, 2015 [–]

But of course nowadays most distributions use KMS and put the consoles in a graphics mode on which the virtual console is emulated.

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