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The resolution wasn’t that bad. VGA was introduced 31 years ago, in 1987. The text mode was 80x25 characters, 9x16 pixels/each, so the effective output resolut
by Const-me 8y ago
The resolution wasn’t that bad.
VGA was introduced 31 years ago, in 1987. The text mode was 80x25 characters, 9x16 pixels/each, so the effective output resolution was 720x400 pixels. I currently develop a device with similar one, 800x480, only now I have GPU and GLES 3.2.
Back to the old times, because RAM was so expensive, that high resolution only worked in text mode, where the frame buffer only had 2 bytes per character, one for character itself, another for attributes i.e. background and foreground colors.
Graphic modes had way lower resolution, indeed.