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by pascal_cuoq 3391 days ago
You are correct, but the screen's last two lines of text required some tricks to take advantage of (search for “reserved” in http://www.tebbo.com/archive/pw810601.htm ), so “64x44” is also a correct description from the programmer's point of view.

The particular trick that enabled the program to use the last two lines was easy to come by (I was in the countryside, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest user group, and I only had a few books as source of information). The existence of such tricks, including the pure software “hi-res” more that I read about at the time but didn't get to see until the Internet made it possible 12 years later, is one of my fond memories of that era.