Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Sat Oct 20 10:18:47 EDT 2012

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On 2012-10-20, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> 	Strangely, we've gone from 80-character fixed width displays to
> who-knows-what (if I drop my font size I can probably get nearly 200
> characters across in full-screen mode)...
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> 	But at the same time we've gone from 132-character line-printers
> using fan-fold 11x17 pages, to office inkjet/laser printers using 8.5x11
> paper, defaulting to portrait orientation -- with a 10 character/inch
> font, and 1/4" left/right margins, we're back to 80 character limitation
><G>

True, but nobody prints source code out on paper do they?

Seriously -- I can't remember the last time I printed souce code...

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Grant

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