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The fonts on CGA / EGA / VGA were pretty brutal.

http://compgroups.net/comp.fonts/fonts-in-the-rom-of-ibm-s-d...

    MDA:  9x14
    CGA:  8x8
    EGA:  8x14
    MCGA: 8x16
    VGA:  9x16
ANSI.SYS had some font manipulation, but not much. There were ways of loading different fonts for the terminal but I can't remember what they were now and they felt like a bit of a kludge back then.

http://www.pcxt-micro.com/ansi.html



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