No. Printers and screens have different and mostly not overlapping use cases. You can't file a screen for archival. A screen cannot be easily marked up by a thi

No. Printers and screens have different and mostly not overlapping use cases. You can't file a screen for archival. A screen cannot be easily marked up by a third party for editing, criticism, or grading. A screen can't be read without electricity. The process improvements necessary to produce retina displays probably weren't really very relevant to 80's computers with CRTs. Maybe in the early 2000's such an effect could have been achieved, but at that time paperless offices were tried and mostly failed anyway.