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Re:Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Late... by herbst on Friday November 18, 2016 @09:29AM (#12986965)
That is actually pretty interesting, thanks for linking!

I still dont understand how this was not "fixed" years ago, sure some config windows have fixed widths because it makes sense, but something as a terminal obviously needs the ability to grow (or shrink), especially after they introduced sticky windows and people actually used "tiling"

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Re:Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Late... by to3m on Friday November 18, 2016 @11:17AM (#12987774)
The idea that the console screen is an MxN matrix is pretty embedded in the API... it's not a MDA display adapter metaphor, not a Unix-style typewriter. I'm guessing they just felt they had bigger fish to fry.

(Everybody I know that uses the console window a lot has always just set the window to 120x9999 or 160x9999 or whatever and forgotten about it. It's one of those things that's obviously kind of lame, but after a while you just forget about it.)

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Re:Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Late... by dboreham on Friday November 18, 2016 @10:00PM (#12991818)
Odd, I've always set it to 132.
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Re:Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Late... by to3m on Friday November 18, 2016 @07:56PM (#12991324)
Oops... it IS a MDA metaphor!
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