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> 80x50 leads to characters that are relatively "flat", not much higher
> than wide. This will distort others art. And it will led to art made
> on such a system being distorted everywhere else.

You may have to change the art for different character sizes. But that would
take MUCH of API programming, means more difficult to port to another
system.

> 80x30 is OK. 80x43 may still work. But 80x50 is too much.

IMHO 80x30 and 80x43 were not really textmodes. I know they were selectable
in Word 5, but only if you'd chosen graphics mode instead of text.

Joey