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Hi, Anton Shepelev - Alexander Koryagin!
I read your message from 28.11.2023 10:32

 AK>> There area lot of people  with small narrow displays and
 AK>> long line allow them readd paragraphs correctly.
 AK>> Paragraph with hard-wrapss look badly in that case.
 AK> Following BSes, FidoNet sooftware assumed the user had at
 AK> least the tandard ISO screeen, that is 80x24 characters.
 AK> All modernvideocards suppoort that textmode, and all modern
 AK> displays hve good-enough rresolution to display an
 AK> 80-character line of text.

Most modern devices have small screens, for instance, smart phones, tablet
computers. Their users use soft like Microsoft windows when they can choose
large symbol fonts. If you want to surprise them unpleasantly you can format
your text by 80 symbols. ;)

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2023

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