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til the DEC VT100, VT220 and VT320 terminals all had built-in pixel doubling circuitry that stretched compressed fonts into their proper size in realtime. this exceptionally well written post describes the mechanism and shows the various forms of output:
https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typographyPublished at
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