> Is it that you need to support both 640x480 and 640x400 Probably. A lot of software back then was rendering UIs with box drawing characters, doing complicat

> Is it that you need to support both 640x480 and 640x400 Probably. A lot of software back then was rendering UIs with box drawing characters, doing complicated layout etc - it's probably much easier to retrofit existing software to output the exact same thing in a slightly higher resolution font than to make the display logic support different resolutions properly.