From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 7357 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2020 06:37:51 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 6 Nov 2020 06:37:51 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 897A29D4B7; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 16:37:48 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC9F9D4B3; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 16:37:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id E7D829D4B3; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 16:37:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1719D4B2 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 16:37:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (aussie-gw.lemis.com [167.179.139.35]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5037280B3; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 06:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id EBE3E26359C; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 17:37:25 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 17:37:25 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: John Cowan Message-ID: <20201106063725.GB99027@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20201106014109.GP26296@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cmJC7u66zC7hs+87" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --cmJC7u66zC7hs+87 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 6 November 2020 at 0:04:28 -0500, John Cowan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:41 PM Larry McVoy wrote: > >> I click but I mostly live in terminal windows. Which are all 80 >> columns because that's the right width (I can go on and on about >> that). > > Aw, c'mon. You're going to tell us that the number of punch holes > that IBM could fit on a punch card in 1928 that was exactly the size > of the dollar bill used in the U.S. from 1862 to 1923 so that it > could be stored in a mechanical cash register is miraculously the > Right Thing when it comes to reading monospaced text on a screen? 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. Your message adheres to the rule, presumably not because you were thinking of punched cards. Was the US $ bill really that big in those days? > I think that's asking a bit much of ol' man Coincidence. Arguably the coincidence was the other way round. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --cmJC7u66zC7hs+87 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAl+k7yUACgkQIubykFB6QiPBcACfa1khStrTHhswa2DMp/fxVuq3 m4UAn3JhlCan9myJaTtxzEyZH7rKkuXU =Gaxs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cmJC7u66zC7hs+87--