> in those days, most of us used 300-baud VT100 terminals, which were VGA (640 X 480). VT100 terminals didn't have addressable pixels at all, nor colors - only

> in those days, most of us used 300-baud VT100 terminals, which were VGA (640 X 480). VT100 terminals didn't have addressable pixels at all, nor colors - only two brightness levels. The screen was an 80x24 character matrix. You could move the notional cursor around by sending escape sequences and thereby place characters where you want within that matrix, so full-screen editor support was possible (and sometimes done), but there was nothing VGA about it. There were also some box-drawing characters in the DEC Special Graphics character set, so you could draw rectangular shapes using primitives like ┣ and ┻. Effectively I guess that sort of got you a 161x49 matrix for wispy images.