9 Nov
2017
9 Nov
'17
5:07 a.m.
On Wednesday, November 8, 2017, Arthur Krewat <krewat(a)kilonet.net> wrote:
I too grew up on DecWriters writing MACRO-10 on
TOPS-10 in high school. My
favorite was the LA120 that I could change the character pitch and get 132
columns on 8.5" paper when we ran out of the wide stuff.
To this day, 80 columns just doesn't do it for me. I generally comment - a
LOT - and in C the comments will stretch out past 80 columns easily.
On 11/8/2017 5:17 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
For me changing 80 columns and/or 8 character Tab is like trying to change
the value of Pi. I consider those the holy rules you just don't change.
But I am probably in minority group these days as I still use a lot of old
school 80 columns VT terminals -- vt220 and vt320 are my personal favorites.
--Andy
I do recall 80 column monitors, but I started on 132 column decwriter IIs
VT100's had a 132 column mode. I wrote a terminal emulator for the IBM-XT
circa 1985 to do 132 columns in it's highest-resolution. I couldn't take 80
columns, even back then ;)
and hence have never had sympathy for 80 columns.
It's weird that so
Interesting. I wonder if that's where the 132 column (alternative)
standard came from. I.e. XTerm's "Allow 80/132 Column Switching" option
in
the VT Options menu.