40x15 char display help?

From: bhurle1@umbc.edu (hurley bryan)
Date: Sun Sep 27 01:06:47 1998
Newsgroups: comp.sys.wearables


I need to display 40x15 chars on a vga display of 640x480, either by using
a whole new graphics routine ie svgalib or something, or just use some
kind of tsr that takes the first 40x15 chars in an 80x25 display and make
each pixel bigger by a factor of two.

This is so I can read text on an M1 display at 320x200 with the same
letters as normal 80x25 which uses the standard resolution for such.

dos first, then linux, as I am at a space premium at the moment.

hints, leads or solutions would all be greatly appreciated.

thanks
Bryan Hurley