Character Generator ROM data

[Tony Duell]

> 
> Gang -
> 
>     Anybody know of readily available data for, say, 7x9 dot-matrix characters?
> I'm looking for a downloadable rom image for something like in old video 
> cards to
> paint ascii characters on a display.

Not directly applicaable, but it may be worth rememebring that there's an 
8*8 font in the IBM PC (etc) BIOS ROM to be used for displaying 
characters in the CGA graohics modes. I assume it's in all clone BIOSes 
as well, at least all old ones.

I think there's a software interrupt vector that points to it on a 
running PC, so it should be easy to find.

Come to think of it, aren't there similar character fonts in most linux 
(and *bsd) distributions to be used for the same purpose. On my old 
debian machine, they seem to be in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts

-tony