Re:IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display
by AlecSchueler on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:18AM
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Anyone else still run 80x25? My eyesight isn't great and I could never afford glasses so the big text is super lovely. I also don't get the point of having more width, since I set everything like vim to wrap at 24 anyway. I can imagine some people like more rows for scanning through logs etc. but in 15 years or so of daily terminal use I've never struggled using pagers and simple tools like grep.
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Re:IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display
by hollerith on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:19AM
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>since I set everything like vim to wrap at 24 anyway
Where you wrote "24" do you mean column 80?
Re:IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display
by AlecSchueler on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @10:34AM
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Yes, of course sorry