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From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 00:16:43 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2011060014470.15043@sd-119843.dedibox.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_Q-wTvG2cAW5goJFYW3A6qF9zOuTh=Y4Kahh0nLBtof2Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, John Cowan wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:41 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> 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 that's asking a bit much of
> ol' man Coincidence.

I find 120x30 (the Windows 10 default) works a bit better, though I still 
consider 80x24/25 the "canonical" terminal size - because it's about the 
width of text on a printout (6.5" x 12 cpi = 78 characters).

-uso.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-06  5:22 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
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
2020-11-06 18:24           ` John Cowan
2020-11-06 21:10   ` Dave Horsfall

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