On: 80x25

[jchw]

Yeah, this was my understanding, but I kept it vague since I don’t claim to be any kind of expert. Otoh, I suspect for this reason that the choice of 80 columns particularly was not motivated by CRT limitations. Could be wrong but it’s not like CRT tech was new in the 70s, and we’re talking about monochrome here.

[jacobush → jchw]

Most monitors were pretty small. So too many characters per horizontal real estate would have been hard to read.

[gok → jacobush]

The core claim of this article is that this is not why 80 was picked though