Comment by nine_k
20 hours ago
IBM PC / AT / PS/2 all had a separate text mode, with glyphs defined in character ROM or RAM. Read about CGA, EGA, VGA. So TUIs basically owned the place since mid-1980s when PCs became ubiquitous, until mid-1990s when Windows started to dominate.
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