[TUHS] 80 columns

[TUHS] 80 columns

[Doug McIlroy]

> I do recall 80 column monitors, but I started on 132 column decwriter
> IIs 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. 

No. IBM's printers were 132 columns even before stored-program
computers.

[TUHS] 80 columns

[Ralph Corderoy]

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Doug wrote:
> > Interesting.  I wonder if that's where the 132 column (alternative)
> > standard came from. 
>
> No. IBM's printers were 132 columns even before stored-program
> computers.

    Standard "green bar" page sizes included portrait-format pages of
    8½ × 11 inches, usually printed at 80 columns by 66 lines (at 6
    lines per inch) or 88 lines (at 8 LPI), and landscape-format pages
    of 14 × 11 inches, usually printed at 132 columns by 66 or 88 lines.
    Also common were landscape-format pages of 14 × 8½ inches, allowing
    for 132 columns by 66 lines (at 8 LPI) on a more compact page.
        — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_printer#Paper_.28forms.29_handling

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