I'd say it's primarily the 80-column terminal limit that is the reasoning for this. I personally only go to 79 columns so that when I work on a terminal and I type that 80th line the insertion pointer doesn't wrap.

Aside from that, on my current monitor (1152 pixels wide), I can get 2 CodeWarrior source windows side-by-side at 80 columns, but not much more if I want to be able to see desktop icons on the side of it. And it's very useful to have those two, usually a source file and its accompanying header. So even if there were no such thing as a text-based terminal anymore, I'd still be in favor of limiting the number of columns to about what we're using.

-- Brian

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