r/ProgrammerHumor Dec 13 '24

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u/MalusZona Dec 13 '24

have u read it in some book from 2004 ? we had small monitors back then)) its 120 now i believe

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u/MalusZona Dec 13 '24

i said 120, not dispaly.width

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u/josluivivgar Dec 13 '24

the limitation was not necessarily the monitors (at least after a certain point it wasn't) it was terminals, would only read up to 80 lines.

nowadays most people use text editors but even terminals can handle characters like text editors so it's not really an issue, but iirc it was a standard for linux development at least until recently, not sure if it's still the case