Timeline for Did BBC Micro business software stick to 40 columns?
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| Feb 12 at 20:55 | comment | added | Alex Taylor | @davolfman Wordwise and Wordwise Plus were popular word processors on the BBC Micro, both using the 40-column teletext mode 7. | |
| Feb 11 at 18:37 | comment | added | davolfman | Given a page of text with even Latex's enormous margins averages about 66 columns, there's no way any word processor would have accepted only using a 40 column mode. | |
| Feb 10 at 21:06 | answer | added | Peter Green | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 22, 2024 at 20:02 | comment | added | Peter Green | Note that as well as "mode 0" 80x32, using 20K of ram there was also "mode 3" 80x25 using 16K of ram. | |
| Dec 30, 2023 at 0:47 | vote | accept | rwallace | ||
| Dec 28, 2023 at 23:24 | comment | added | Andrew Morton | 80-column text needed a relatively expensive monitor in those days. | |
| Dec 28, 2023 at 15:26 | answer | added | Tommy | timeline score: 16 | |
| Dec 28, 2023 at 2:42 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 27, 2023 at 20:35 | history | edited | rwallace | CC BY-SA 4.0 | link to source |
| Dec 27, 2023 at 20:19 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 27, 2023 at 18:42 | history | asked | rwallace | CC BY-SA 4.0 |