On 20 October 2012 15:18, Grant Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:invalid@invalid.invalid" target="_blank">invalid@invalid.invalid</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 2012-10-20, Dennis Lee Bieber <<a href="mailto:wlfraed@ix.netcom.com">wlfraed@ix.netcom.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Strangely, we've gone from 80-character fixed width displays to<br>
> who-knows-what (if I drop my font size I can probably get nearly 200<br>
> characters across in full-screen mode)...<br>
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> But at the same time we've gone from 132-character line-printers<br>
> using fan-fold 11x17 pages, to office inkjet/laser printers using 8.5x11<br>
> paper, defaulting to portrait orientation -- with a 10 character/inch<br>
> font, and 1/4" left/right margins, we're back to 80 character limitation<br>
><G><br>
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</div>True, but nobody prints source code out on paper do they?<br>
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Seriously -- I can't remember the last time I printed souce code...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The A-level computing syllabus requires you to. A friend of mine who took the course ended up with a 200+ page binder.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just saying.</div></div>