Hans wrote:
So a 40x12 or a 80x24 similar gives a 'good'
view (Just for us
ol'apple freaks, didn't the APPLE ][ 40x24 display look _very_
clumbsy ?
Well, maybe so, but I'm glad they *didn't* go with 40x12.
40 characters was chosen because it was the most that a typical television
(not monitor) in 1976 could display legibly. And even so, most color
televisions still had color fringes on the characters.
Eric