From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 31161 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2020 05:22:44 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 6 Nov 2020 05:22:44 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0B20C9D4BB; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 15:22:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F9B89D4B3; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 15:22:21 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B1D2D9D4B3; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 15:22:18 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 331 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2020 15:22:17 AEST Received: from minun.buric.co (minun.buric.co [51.15.8.196]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9659D4B2 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 15:22:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minun.buric.co (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9CBD135C1136; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 06:16:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minun.buric.co (Postfix) with ESMTP id 859D835C1134 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2020 00:16:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 00:16:43 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Nickolas X-X-Sender: mary@sd-119843.dedibox.fr To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20201106014109.GP26296@mcvoy.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, John Cowan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:41 PM Larry McVoy 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.