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You used to be able to run old terminals in either 80 or 132 column modes.
by rjsw 5y ago
You 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.