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MS-DOS also supported the 80x43 or 80x50 screen modes for extra information density. On later hardware you would have SVGA-based or VESA-based text modes with even more density, though by that time DOS itself had mostly fallen out of use.


I seem to remember one 132 wide, but since the resolution didn’t change (much?) it was near unreadable.


I still run my (Unix) terminals sized to 80x43 by default.




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