24x80 Standard? (was: Re: HX20)

From: Uncle Roger <sinasohn_at_ricochet.net>
Date: Fri Dec 11 02:37:12 1998

>In a windowy world there are still plenty of applications that do great
>work with an 80X24 character (or much less) screen.

I was asked this yesterday (sorta) -- Why the 80x24 standard of yore?

I believe the 80 columns comes from the 80 column punched cards, but I
can't remember where the 24 comes from.

Thanks in advance...


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