Identifying Machine for DEC Memory

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 18:00, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> 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 café 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-become-the-text-monitor-standard

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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