On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 18:00, Warner Losh <i...@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 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. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
