Early Reuters and Bloomberg terminals had a text-centric aesthetic.
AFAIK on a PC, when booted into text-only mode, you are still using a bit-mapped framebuffer. From my experiments you can mix graphics and text.
PC is the weird exception in having a character mode at all for compatibility reasons. every other platform does the character mapping in software.
PC is the weird exception in having a character mode at all for compatibility reasons. every other platform does the character mapping in software.