@chrisod Even hardware this old can handle it just fine, it's a matter of habit now.
E.g. most distros have some flavour of getty running on six consoles, I'm a long time Linux user and I've never used more than three, even if it's tens of megabytes, why have it?
And I'm not into having it barebones just for the sake of it, these colored smileys will look cool in mutt — ok, let's use patched st. It's not a good reason to have a terminal that has this, that and the kitchen sink 🤷
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