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1. Ethan Blanton (elb@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jun-2022 02:07:21 UTC Ethan Blanton

   When I found out this book existed, it took me approximately 13.28 seconds to order a copy.

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   • Ethan Blanton (elb@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jun-2022 02:07:19 UTC Ethan Blanton

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     This book suggests that "1,920 character terminals" (that is, 80x24) might display too much data at once and confuse the operator.

     That hasn't aged well.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jun-2022 02:07:28 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @elb Or did it?
   • junkman@mastodon.sdf.org's status on Sunday, 19-Jun-2022 01:12:18 UTC junkman

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     • publius

     @elb @publius
     32X16 IS ALL ONE NEEDS.
     AND LOWERCASE IS A DISTRACTION.

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   • Ethan Blanton (elb@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jun-2022 01:12:21 UTC Ethan Blanton

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     • publius

     @publius (A nearby claim in the book points out that often only a small percentage of the display contains useful information, BTW.)

   • Ethan Blanton (elb@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jun-2022 01:12:24 UTC Ethan Blanton

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     • publius

     @publius I don't think I agree that that's a property of the display having the facility to display that many characters, though. Small displays (think CoCo or PET!) can be extremely confusing, as well, and sometimes BECAUSE they're (too) small!

   • publius (publius@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jun-2022 01:12:26 UTC publius

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     @elb

     Honestly, I'm not sure it's wrong. How often is your terminal window actually full of meaningful character data that you're trying to pay attention to?

     Editing a page of text is one thing, but something like htop can be quite bewildering.