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What's the 132 precedent?
by anon9001 5y ago
What's the 132 precedent?
- throwawayboise 5y agoBack in the day some terminals had a choice of 80 or 132 column modes. Since obviously the window (screen) didn't change size, this was achieved with a narrower font.
- CSSer 5y agoMonospaced, right?
- cogburnd02 5y agoyes, but using fewer horizontal pixels.
- rjsw 5y agoYou used to be able to run old terminals in either 80 or 132 column modes.
- cogburnd02 5y agoThis. I know the DEC VT340 was capable of 132 columns, as was an Apple II with a Videx Ultraterm card and a suitable (hi-res) monitor. There are probably even more examples, but those two are what came to mind first.
- chungy 5y agoGNOME Terminal's four presets are: 80x24, 80x43, 132x24, 132x43 I always kind of figured "132" was some arbitrary programmer decision, never knew it dated to old terminals. At least I recognize 24 and 43 as the number of lines old text modes (on, eg, VGA) had.
- nitrogen 5y agoSome old SVGA cards from the 1990s had a ~132x60 mode (as well as a bunch of others), that could be activated in DOS with the RHIDE editor that came with DJGPP (no doubt there were other ways), or with SVGATextMode in Linux.
- egberts1 5y agoAhhh, the good ol’ DEC VT-240 CRT.
- upofadown 5y agoMany line printers back in the day did 132 columns. As a result the popular DEC VT-100 had a 132 column mode to allow proper viewing of the output of programs without having to waste paper. It wasn't that great and was sort of hard to read. As part of VT-100 compatibility, many subsequent terminals also supported 132 column mode.
- tyingq 5y agoOthers have mentioned printers and older terminals that supported 80 and 132 column modes. That bled into other things. Like, for example, Gnome's terminal app has a couple of 132 column settings as selectable presets. Also, the framebuffer/vga console in Linux (and probably other OSes) can be set into a 132 column mode. It's an official "VESA mode" also.