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Correction: the VT100's characters in 80-column mode were 10×10, which is 800×250 pixels, or 0.2 megapixels, not so 640×250 as I said. That's 4% more than two of these 400×240 panels together. That said, the X-Windows 5x8 font is reasonably readable, and the 6x10 font is perfectly fine. 4×6, as xterm -fn -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--6-60-75-75-c-40-iso646.1991-irv, leaves a lot to be desired.

However, videos of the display hardware like https://youtu.be/zzJjE1VPKjI show that you can get really astonishing things out of 0.1 megapixels when you drive it with current levels of computation instead of, like, an 8085. (That video is a little misleading in that it claims "60 fps animation", while the datasheet claims the max is 20 fps.)




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