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And the 80 columns come (losely) from a still older standard in typography, of about 70 characters per line, found empirically as a good size for a line. Even t
by f1shy 1y ago
And the 80 columns come (losely) from a still older standard in typography, of about 70 characters per line, found empirically as a good size for a line. Even today is good design practice in UI, Web and books to stick to 60 to 80 CPL.
- aardvark179 1y agoThe reason for it in terminals is much more directly linked to the IBM punched card format.