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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by Koshkin on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @12:33PM (#23553340)
> 80x25 character displays

I am sure Doom and other great pieces of software were written on one of those.

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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor by AlanYx on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @12:43PM (#23553465)
Not to take away from your point, but Doom was actually written on a NeXTstation and cross-compiled for PCs, so at a minimum they were using 1120x832 resolution (2 bit greyscale).
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