I think you're mis-remembering your time period. 20" monitors weren't widely available until the mid-late 1990s; nor were P133 machines (P133 release was in Jun

I think you're mis-remembering your time period. 20" monitors weren't widely available until the mid-late 1990s; nor were P133 machines (P133 release was in June 1995; so for it to be considered mid-low end, late 90s would be more likely). Where I worked in the early 1990s (1992-ish), us developers fought over who would have the color terminals (Wyse 370/380) and who would have the monochrome ones (Wyse 50/60). I was low-man on the pole so I always got stuck with the low-spec terminal (though I still have an affinity today to amber VT220 text characters). Until I "wowed" the owner of the company (small shop) showing how to do windows, dialogs, etc in a terminal using a virtual buffer and some other "tricks". Then I was given one of the color terminals, to jazz our interface (which was mostly numbered menus and basic flat screens). At one point, I played around with the 16 color Textronix graphics mode you could pop into with the right escape sequence; I think I made a very slow Mandelbrot set generator (never showed that to him; our app was already pushing our dev hardware, which was an IBM RS/6000 desktop workstation running AIX we all shared via 9600 bps serial connections)...