I agree, and I was thinking the same thing as I read the article. Even so, I'm glad we're talking about history. 79 or 81 characters would be pretty much the

I agree, and I was thinking the same thing as I read the article. Even so, I'm glad we're talking about history. 79 or 81 characters would be pretty much the same. You have to know the history to understand why 80 is a magic number. And why does my terminal window have a baud rate? Why is it so slow?