From: Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>,
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 12:26:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3c54b19d-e604-68eb-2b4b-0b65e9cfb896@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5BE1CBD5-C9EB-45D4-B135-E58BCCCBE38C@gmail.com>
On 11/6/20 12:13 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:
> I’m going to chime in on pro-80-columns here, because with the text a comfortable size to read (although this is getting less true as my eyes age), I can read an entire 80-column line without having to sweep my eyes back and forth.
>
> I can’t, and never could, do that at 132.
>
> As a consequence, I read much, much faster with 80-column-ish text blocks.
>
> I also think there is something to the “UNIX is verbal” and “UNIX nerds tend to be polyglots often with a surprising amount of liberal arts background of one kind or another,” argument. That may, however, merely be confirmation bias.
>
> Adam
May have had to do with the first terminal commonly used with UNIX.
The Model 33 printed on 8.5-inch (220 mm) wide paper, supplied on continuous
5-inch (130 mm) diameter rolls and fed via friction (instead of, e.g., tractor
feed). It printed at a fixed 10 characters per inch, and supported 74-character
lines,[13] although 72 characters is often commonly stated.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-05 22:10 Tyler Adams
2020-11-06 0:39 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-11-06 1:41 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-06 5:04 ` John Cowan
2020-11-06 5:16 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-11-06 6:34 ` Rob Pike
2020-11-06 13:20 ` Will Senn
2020-11-06 15:07 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-06 15:40 ` Will Senn
2020-11-06 15:46 ` Chris Torek
2020-11-06 22:54 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-11-06 23:29 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-11-06 22:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-11-06 23:41 ` Warren Toomey
2020-11-06 6:37 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-11-06 15:06 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-06 15:18 ` Bakul Shah
2020-11-06 15:19 ` Chris Torek
2020-11-06 16:46 ` Stephen Clark
2020-11-06 18:51 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-06 22:09 ` John Cowan
2020-11-06 22:44 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-11-06 22:12 ` Andy Kosela
2020-11-06 22:23 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-07 0:16 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-11-08 23:23 ` George Michaelson
2020-11-06 17:05 ` Paul Winalski
2020-11-06 17:07 ` Larry McVoy
2020-11-06 17:25 ` Warner Losh
2020-11-06 17:13 ` Adam Thornton
2020-11-06 17:26 ` Stephen Clark [this message]
2020-11-06 18:24 ` John Cowan
2020-11-06 21:10 ` Dave Horsfall
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