I recently went back to my 1993 Turbo Pascal code (mostly 2D VGA and Sound Blaster game engine experiments) on period correct hardware.

I was surprised by how claustrophobic it felt to only see 21 lines of code in e.g. Turbo Pascal 7.0. Still didn’t like the squashed 80x43 mode.

Then I remembered how larger displays and xterm felt like such a liberation a few years later.

Power users had superEGA with 132 column 40/43/44/60/66 row modes.

	▲	lysace 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I think mostly just Lotus 1-2-3 (the standard textmode spreadsheet application of the time) supported that?