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Originally Posted by Frogs
The discussion on text mode wasn't about 80 columns. It is a straw man to suggest otherwise. It was about the readability and usability to read, write and edit text on an Amiga 1000 in 1985 compared to the Macintosh and various IBM types of the time -- which is 1985 not 1982 or whatever arbitrary pre-Amiga date.
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I think this is a central point in this text mode argument. I really have no idea so please anyone give us some hard facts: what physical resolution would a good text mode display in 1985 have? Would that be more like 640x400 or what?
(btw, my linux PC still starts up its kernel in text mode and it looks like a very, very coarse resolution with giant pixelated letters but since it's gone after a second I can't tell what resolution that would be).