in ancient rome, the standard war chariot was 80 columns wide, a tradition that persists in the terminal emulators of today

[joe@f.duriansoftware.com]

in ancient rome, the standard war chariot was 80 columns wide, a tradition that persists in the terminal emulators of today

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@joe Joe

[bluewinds@tech.lgbt]

@joe The 80 chariots wide thing was standard for plays and dramatizations - char-actors, if you will.

[jimsalter@fosstodon.org]

@joe ... okay, but how do you explain the regression to first 32 and then 64 columns in the TRS-80 Models I through IV?

[hoco@sfba.social]

@joe I think Rome standardized on Fortran. I could be wrong.

[juanejot@beige.party]

@joe By Emily Dickinson's time, the concept of the C(h)ar(iot)riage Return had attained Immortality, though she wrote by hand.

[finitebaffle@mas.to]

@joe well actually that was just a coincidence. The ancient Romans made their chariots that size so they could fit their horses asses on to a space shuttle solid rocket booster.

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@joe the Minoan culture on Crete used 64 columns, till they were wiped out by a volcano, otherwise we would probably have another paper size

[darkcyberman@nerdculture.de]

@joe First use of colums as unit stems from what is now Jordan. Archeological evidence suggests that special structures that hold knowledge of life, the universe and everything were all 42 columns wide. This evidence is now being threatened by the current war.

[grimthorpe@tech.lgbt]

@joe
Don't forget that Isenbard Brunel Machines tried to popularise the 132 column terminal "wide gauge" to match their train tracks, but eventually fell into line with standard 80 gauge.