@niconiconi I follow this even for local services, as historically it didn't take very many I/O intensive operations to be trouble for a random PC. SSDs have improved that, but ...

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

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

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.

@ajroach42 @gedvondur @Truck I was making exactly this 15-versus-10 year argument earlier this week.

My first smart phone brought me capabilities I hadn't previously had. My newest smart phone ... does the same things.

The environment I use on my desktop computer today is not meaningfully different from what I used in 2005, however, and you can see the close resemblance from there to what I used in 1995.

@jgoerzen https://radicle.xyz/ is not at all like email coordination, but may be interesting to you nonetheless. I haven't looked closely in a while but it had promise (maybe not quite realized) the last time I did.