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pjmlptoday at 11:30 AM1 replyview on HN

It doesn't, that is an issue with how UNIX terminals came to be, and the whole backwards compatibility pretending that an HiDPi screen is a VT 100.

Terminals on other operating systems that grew up with a framebuffer don't have this limitation.


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jdougantoday at 12:30 PM

Or for that matter, the magic that was a Tektronix storage scope terminal (and compatibles. At school there was a vt10x that had been modified to act like a Tek 4014 by some third party).