In some email I received from Greg A. Woods, sie wrote:
> [ On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 12:03:06 (-0400), Andrew Brown wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: how to change swapctl() interface.
> >
> > plus one for the null.  a 1024 byte pathname (imho, quite excessive)
> > would look like a block of text (assuming you're using a "normal"
> > 80x24 window/screen) that would half fill your screen.  doesn't
> > exactly strike me as useful.  104 should be quite sufficient.
> 
> "normal"?????  I think not.  Even my vt101 does 132 columns, and yes it
> got used in that way an *awful* lot of the time.  My current console is
> an ATT605 in 132 column mode.  These days I won't use a screen that
> won't display more than 100 readable characters (and still have room for
> a 26-char 'xclock -digital' if it's running X11).

80x24 is "normal".  132 is just a common option that some people use.