> It's _also_ a very reasonable & readable amount of text in a row
Presumably, that's why they used 80 characters in the first place, as anything more is too hard to read.
Presumably, that's why they used 80 characters in the first place, as anything more is too hard to read.
80 column displays date back to the early 1970s.
I started coding on an 80 column display, and I have no doubt at all that a modern 16:9 monitor that can display a double page PDF or a web page with a variety of fonts is a much better display device.