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.

https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/c38a28c3-84c3-ba28-1011-c3...

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