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Asker of the question here, you are indeed spot on, Windows 95 was the first OS I used!

The train of reasoning here reminds me of another story (which I think has been on HN before): Why is a space shuttle engine 4' 8.5" wide?

http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html

Snopes suggests that story is a little inaccurate: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp

Because an Emacs window split into two 80x25 frames fits perfectly on a 13" Macbook Air. ;)

Hey.. I still remember my first programming experience with Turbo Pascal running with MS-DOS 5 and I didn't know how this 80 characters per line popped up in history. I remember there was something like .. "MODE CON..." that I could change the chars, but I didn't know why and how the defaults were settled everywhere the same. Kudos for the OP asking this question.

> It's funny to start seeing more and more questions from people who started using computers with Windows 95.

I don't know why they stuck with it!

C64s and amigas.. when computers were cool before microsoft ruined it! Now we've been saved by apple, hurah

> get off my lawn

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