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		fsckboy on June 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Original 8x16 ASCII Fixed Width Font: Cla... are you referring to the IBM PC monochrome console screen? or common terminals from that time?

anyfoo on June 6, 2024 [–]

No, just normal VGA (and SVGA, and beyond that) monitors, up to before the first flat screens appeared.

But I made a small mistake, as another commenter pointed out: VGA text mode resolution was 720x400, not 720x350.

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