72 inch wrap. Was: A Couple of Incoherent Questions

Henry Spencer henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
Wed Nov 17 04:18:03 UTC 2004


On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Bill Mudry wrote:
> Hope you don't mind my asking, Lennart. How prevalent are 80 character
> displays these days anyways? With the high res displays many people
> have I would have thought that they would be largely a thing of the past.
> I use a resolution of 1280 x 1024.

80-character *displays* are increasingly rare, but even on high-resolution
displays, 80-column *windows* are very common, and wider ones are rare.
(Display resolution 1600x1200 here, but all the windows are 80 columns.)

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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