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Interesting article with some nice pictures and links. I have a very simplistic question. The article asks, "Given the historical popularity of 80x24 terminals
by cannam 7y ago
Interesting article with some nice pictures and links.
I have a very simplistic question. The article asks, "Given the historical popularity of 80x24 terminals, why do so many modern systems use 80x25 windows?" My question is: Do any modern systems use 80x25 windows, other than the console of the IBM-compatible PC?
- jwilk 7y agoAll the terminal emulators I have at hand (xterm, urxvt, tmux) default to 80×24, not ×25.
- kens 7y agoI believe 80x25 is the default for iTerm, qemu, as well as cmd/command on Windows, minicom, kermit, and CentOS console. Anyone know of other current users of 80x25?
- int_19h 7y agoMATE Terminal defaults to 80x25 as well.
- knolax 7y agoI use a tiking WM so all my terminals just expand to fill the screen or some integer fraction thereof.
- DrScump 7y agoThe Wyse terminals we used with UNIX in the late 80s had 25 lines -- 24 regular lines, plus a bottom status line. Almost half of that line could be written to using escape sequences -- in UNIX, a simple "echo" command with the properly encoded escape sequence did the trick. In my organization, we had to install and run multiple generations of our products, and it was confusing to keep track which "world" your current environment variables pointed to. So, I, being a tinkerer by nature, wrote separate environment files for each "world" that included an echo command to echo the appropriate escape sequence so that the current environment setting could be seen at a glance in the bottom status line.