6 Nov
2020
6 Nov
'20
11:04 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:41 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
I click but I mostly live in
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.
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