6 Nov
2020
6 Nov
'20
11:16 a.m.
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, John Cowan wrote:
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:41 PM Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
I click but I mostly live in
I find 120x30 (the Windows 10 default) works a bit better, though I still
consider 80x24/25 the "canonical" terminal size - because it's about the
width of text on a printout (6.5" x 12 cpi = 78 characters).
-uso.
terminal windows. Which are all 80 columns
because that's the right
width (I can go on and on about that).
Aw, c'mon. You're going to tell us that the number of punch holes that IBM
could fit on a punch card in 1928 that was exactly the size of the dollar
bill used in the U.S. from 1862 to 1923 so that it could be stored in a
mechanical cash register is miraculously the Right Thing when it comes to
reading monospaced text on a screen? I think that's asking a bit much of
ol' man Coincidence.