Re: lynx-dev screen widths

[David Woolley]

> the reason for making CRT terminals 80-col seems most likely to have been
> that on a 12" screen it gives characters roughly paper-printing size;

Not printing, only typewriting, but another good reason is that that is
what you get when you use the smallest practical dot matrix pattern with
square pixels on a US TV monitor non-interlaced.

> some very early personal computers had 40-col displays,
> probably due to their very small memories or processors.

The main reason is that it represents about the maximum you can get
accurately through the aerial socket of a domestic television, i.e
240 pixels in about 60 microseconds, or 4 mega pixels per second.