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From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Compatibility question
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:05:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VQzW1v9qGeDLvfYDw9NGUaoWR2hruWh6jG3rNSvBswYzg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <em0ec6da89-65cc-417f-a398-c3acaa304230@d0656764.com>

On 12/17/23, Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> That’s not entirely true.   The VT100 could switch modes from 80x24 to
> 132x14 (the latter was pretty ugly) or with the AVO 132x24.

The 132-character screen width was for displaying files originally
formatted to be printed on a line printer.  Compiler listings and
linker maps, for example.

-Paul W.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-18 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-17  2:01 [TUHS] " KenUnix
2023-12-17 18:13 ` [TUHS] " Seth Morabito
2023-12-17 18:23   ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-12-17 22:51     ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-12-17 22:59       ` Ron Natalie
2023-12-17 23:08         ` Warner Losh
2023-12-18  0:35           ` KenUnix
2023-12-18  3:24             ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-12-18 17:05         ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2023-12-18 22:29           ` Jon Forrest
2023-12-19  1:46           ` Dave Horsfall
2023-12-19  7:56             ` Harald Arnesen
2023-12-19 17:40             ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-19 18:07               ` Tom Lyon
2023-12-19 20:23                 ` Clem Cole
2023-12-19 21:31                   ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-19 23:52                     ` Bakul Shah
2023-12-20  0:05                       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-12-20  1:03                         ` Bakul Shah
2023-12-20  1:32                           ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-12-20  6:05                             ` Wesley Parish
2023-12-20  0:15                       ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-12-20 16:07                         ` Adam Thornton
2023-12-20 16:22                           ` Clem Cole
2023-12-20 18:11                           ` Alan D. Salewski
2023-12-20 16:34                         ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-20 18:15                           ` Jon Forrest
2023-12-20  1:11                       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-12-20  1:23                         ` Tom Lyon
2023-12-21  3:53                     ` Rod Bartlett via TUHS
2023-12-19 21:34                   ` Rob Pike
2023-12-17  5:55 David Arnold
2023-12-17  8:08 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-12-17 18:04   ` James Frew
2023-12-17 18:18     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-12-17 19:14       ` Brad Spencer
2023-12-17 18:48     ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-17 18:59       ` Warner Losh
2023-12-17 20:24       ` Dave Horsfall
2023-12-17 19:26     ` Dan Cross
2023-12-17 20:08       ` Warner Losh
2023-12-17 14:07 ` Brad Spencer
2023-12-17 14:47   ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS

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