From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [TUHS] 80 columns ...
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 18:49:29 -0500 [thread overview]
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On 11/8/2017 6:15 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
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> xterms killed that requirement for me a long time ago.
>
>
> It killed 80 columns, but not 8 character hard tabs!
>
Whoever came up with 4 column tabs should be shot. ;)
On 11/8/2017 6:24 PM, Andy Kosela wrote:
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>
> On Thursday, November 9, 2017, Arthur Krewat <krewat at kilonet.net
> <mailto:krewat at kilonet.net>> wrote:
>
>
> xterms killed that requirement for me a long time ago.
>
>
> I still use 80 columns on my xterms. Like Larry said, most things in
> Unix still looks perfect on 80 columns display, plus it's easier to
> read -- less eye movements from left to right. If you think about it,
> regular books have a similar format. It has been
> scientifically proven that very long lines are just harder and
> slower to read.
>
Besides programming, system administration and other tasks these days
sometimes requires a few more columns than 80:
http://pdp10.kilonet.org/images/xterm.jpg
And that's just one example.
I forgot to mention my using xterms past 80 columns wasn't so much about
writing code (although, I do regularly go past 80 columns) but general
UNIX stuff too.
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BTW, no disrespect to anyone here, whatever floats your boat ;)
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2017-11-08 20:52 ron minnich
2017-11-08 21:02 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-08 21:19 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-08 21:24 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-08 21:28 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-08 21:48 ` [TUHS] (cassette) tape coming back [was " Charles H Sauer
2017-11-08 22:46 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-08 23:28 ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 23:35 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 23:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 21:34 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-08 21:40 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-08 21:40 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-08 21:43 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-09 1:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-11-08 23:46 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-11-09 6:52 ` Otto Moerbeek
2017-11-08 21:06 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-08 21:18 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-08 22:17 ` Grant Taylor
2017-11-08 22:30 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 23:07 ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-08 23:15 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 23:15 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-08 23:49 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2017-11-09 0:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-08 23:24 ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-09 7:24 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-09 15:02 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-09 19:14 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-10 16:18 ` Nemo
2017-11-10 19:05 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 20:36 ` Toby Thain
2017-11-10 20:39 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-10 20:46 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-10 20:59 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-11 9:24 ` David Arnold
2017-11-10 20:43 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 20:58 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-10 21:02 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 21:09 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-10 21:12 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 21:34 ` William Corcoran
2017-11-10 21:50 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 22:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-10 23:05 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 23:52 ` Toby Thain
2017-11-11 0:24 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-11 16:40 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-11-11 16:47 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-11 17:23 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-11 17:38 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-10 22:46 ` Toby Thain
2017-11-10 22:59 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-11 14:33 ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-11 17:19 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-11 17:24 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-11 17:25 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-10 23:59 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-10 22:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-09 20:46 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-10 17:21 Norman Wilson
2017-11-10 17:56 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-11 17:04 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-11-11 17:30 ` Random832
2017-11-11 18:05 ` Ian Zimmerman
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