Re: [TUHS] C question for the historians

80 was the number of columns in the IBM punched cards. Teletypes only had 72 coumns. Most lineprinters could do 132. I remember making the jump from the Visual200's (a vt52 clone) to the 5620 DMD. I actually had at home in my kitchen a ASR-37. It was one of the only terminals I have used that I didn't need to engage nl mode. It had a big NEWLINE key that sent "\n" and didn't need to have the "\r" also sent. It also did stuff with all the SI/SO and ESC 8 and 9 things that nroff sent by default without the need for an converting filter. Amusingly, it was also one of the the only terminals I used that did something with CD and DSR. Upon DSR coming up, it would turn on the motor and on CD a giant green PROCEED indicator came on. I never turned it off, I just shutdown the modem. -----Original Message----- From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of Larry McVoy Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 3:24 PM To: ron minnich Cc: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org Subject: Re: [TUHS] C question for the historians I'm an 80 column person, I like it for side by side diffs, stuff like that. I also read very very fast by reading down the center and using peripheral vision for either side (hockey habits die hard). I can't do that with much wider than 80 column. I had a guy working for me who started to argue with me and caught himself: "I work for you, so it's 80 columns. When you work for me it won't be." Fair enough.