3 Apr
2020
3 Apr
'20
4:03 a.m.
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 18:00, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
Thanks! Nice talk! I wish I'd stuck around but I was kinda fried after my talk...
I understand. I was the same, and went to the caf? for a couple of beers. :-)
Surprised you didn't mention that we had 80 column
xterms due to 24x80 25x80 terminals from the 70s and 80s. But this mirrored the 25x80
column 3270s from the 60s which mirrored cards which were 80 columns which owe their
existence to Hollerith adapting the Jacquard looms from the 19th century which automated
the looms of the 18th century... :)
I did know about that story (this one:
http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/10/23/80x25/ ) but there seems to be
a lot of controversy around it...
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5629/why-did-80x25-becom…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21340548
And I always find I need to cut a lot of material to fit the time
slot, in any case.
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