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From: grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2020 10:08:57 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201106230857.GF99027@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202011061519.0A6FJOAx034308@elf.torek.net>

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[Following clemc's example and moving to COFF]

On Friday,  6 November 2020 at  7:19:24 -0800, Chris Torek wrote:
>> I'm lazy.
>
> I am too, but I still use a big screen: I just fit a lot of smaller
> windows in it.

Agreed.  There's a second issue here: for reading text, 70 to 80 n
widths is optimal.  For reading computer output, it should be much
wider.  I've compromised by fitting two 120 character wide xterms on
my monitors, left and right.  I still display only 70-80 characters
for text.

> 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.

The issue there is perspective.  I could do that (modulo cost) in my
office, but I'd have a horizontal angle of about 90°, and that's
uncomfortable.

> (But I'll make do with these 27" 4k displays. :-) )

Yes, that's about the widest I find comfortable, and it took me a
while to adapt.

Greg
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2020-11-06 15:53             ` clemc
2020-11-06 19:22               ` tytso
2020-11-06 19:24                 ` clemc
2020-11-06 22:58               ` grog
2020-11-07 21:04                 ` clemc
2020-11-07 23:05                   ` dave
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2020-11-06 16:22               ` clemc
2020-11-06 18:12                 ` torek
2020-11-07  2:52                 ` cym224
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2020-11-07  4:22                   ` grog
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2020-11-06 23:08           ` grog [this message]
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2020-11-07  0:16             ` dave

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