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According to wikipedia, 1981 video cards needed 4KB for monochrome text at 25x80.

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Q: Why One reason why GUI's were initially slow to be adopted was the cost of the hardware needed to support them how much video RAM needed to support a 25 line x 80 RW character monochrome textscreen?
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