6 Nov
2020
6 Nov
'20
10:46 p.m.
On 11/6/20 10:19 AM, Chris Torek wrote:
Yes -- this is the (or at least
"an") argument for two-column text
on wide (8.5x11 or A4, or larger) paper pages.
Could the 72 characters come from the original terminal ASR 33 Teletype?
The Model 33 printed on 8.5-inch (220 mm) wide paper, supplied on continuous
5-inch (130 mm) diameter rolls and fed via friction (instead of, e.g., tractor
feed). It printed at a fixed 10 characters per inch, and supported 74-character
lines,[13] although 72 characters is often commonly stated.
--
I think you're jumping to conclusions. The
importance of 80
characters (for small values of 80) is that it's a comfortable text
width for human eyes.
Exactly this. It's also why I'm fine with smaller
screens, I tried the giant apple
displays and found that those required head movement along with eye
movement.
I'm lazy.
I am too, but I still use a big screen: I just fit a lot of
smaller windows in it. I'd like to have a literal wall screen,
especially if I'm in an interior, windowless (as in physical glass
windows) room, so that part of the wall could be a "window"
showing a view "outside" (real time, or the ocean, or whatever)
and other parts of the wall could be the text I'm working on/with,
etc.
(But I'll make do with these 27" 4k displays. :-) )
Chris