From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 00:07:07 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] 80 columns ... In-Reply-To: <225f0698-403a-88ff-3056-fca5df83a2db@kilonet.net> References: <922d4a31-3c38-dcae-b6d2-e361d32cb24f@tnetconsulting.net> <225f0698-403a-88ff-3056-fca5df83a2db@kilonet.net> Message-ID: On Wednesday, November 8, 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote: > I too grew up on DecWriters writing MACRO-10 on TOPS-10 in high school. My > favorite was the LA120 that I could change the character pitch and get 132 > columns on 8.5" paper when we ran out of the wide stuff. > > To this day, 80 columns just doesn't do it for me. I generally comment - a > LOT - and in C the comments will stretch out past 80 columns easily. > > On 11/8/2017 5:17 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote: > >> >> 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. I.e. XTerm's "Allow 80/132 Column Switching" option in >> the VT Options menu. >> > > VT100's had a 132 column mode. I wrote a terminal emulator for the IBM-XT > circa 1985 to do 132 columns in it's highest-resolution. I couldn't take 80 > columns, even back then ;) > For me changing 80 columns and/or 8 character Tab is like trying to change the value of Pi. I consider those the holy rules you just don't change. But I am probably in minority group these days as I still use a lot of old school 80 columns VT terminals -- vt220 and vt320 are my personal favorites. --Andy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: