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An idea for a terminal that uses a proportional-width font instead of a monospace font, so characters like "i" and "w" take up their appropriate horizontal space rather than identical width. The author notes table output from commands like ls -l or top would remain aligned by spending cycles doing math, something now practical because computers are fast and no longer need to conserve cycles.
What it addresses
Terminals use monospace fonts in which every character — including "i" and "w" — occupies the same horizontal space, a legacy of slow computers when cycles and bits had to be counted, wasting space and making text less readable.
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Unnamed project
An idea for a terminal that uses a proportional-width font instead of a monospace font, so characters like "i" and "w" take up their appropriate horizontal space rather than identical width. The author notes table output from commands like ls -l or top would remain aligned by spending cycles doing math, something now practical because computers are fast and no longer need to conserve cycles.
Problem: Terminals use monospace fonts in which every character — including "i" and "w" — occupies the same horizontal space, a legacy of slow computers when cycles and bits had to be counted, wasting space and making text less readable.
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