Right, I have a pair of 1920s portrait so I can have more drops on my desktop, but on my 17inch MBP, more than 3 drops is too small for my middle-aged eyes. As

Right, I have a pair of 1920s portrait so I can have more drops on my desktop, but on my 17inch MBP, more than 3 drops is too small for my middle-aged eyes. As the commenter above stated, he found considerably less than 1% of his lines required > 80 cols, so rather than go 96 cols and have 17% of my screen real estate wasted, I'll have the extra column of code or documentation or tests, or output, and have to toggle less.