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GNOME 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 o
by chungy 5y ago
GNOME 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.