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Tue, 16 Jun 2020 08:04:50 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20200613154409.GA89618@neutralgood.org> <13115.1592302784@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <20200616071153.00006f4d@seibercom.net> <20200616075548.000066f1@seibercom.net> <20200616140416.bd7b8bf2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200616142043.7d599458.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200616092901.000002f7@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: From: Aryeh Friedman Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:04:38 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Mailing List Etiquette was freebsd vs. netbsd To: Chris Knipe Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49mWhM387Mz4781 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=oM82ic56; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of aryehfriedman@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:4864:20::134 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=aryehfriedman@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.14 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.05)[-1.051]; 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About another 20% use Windows 7 and also refuse to upgrade. >> The console for the monitors (rarely used directly by anyone except for us >> the programmers) is 24x80 via a USB connector. So yes such screen sizes >> are an issue for us. >> >> > > Apples vs. Pears. Even XP, supports HTML email, even XP supports > rendering emails wider than 80 characters. > > Some of my code is GUI, running on 7", or 14" monitors. Nothing forces my > -code- to be 80 characters wide. Yes, the -rendering- is a different > story, the -code- is not. > Unless some program was hard coded for it then the code is different. In many legacy applications such hard codings were made to maximize performance and/or some other reason. It is these legacy applications that in many cases make it so the doctor's office refuses to upgrade (usually some ancient accounting or lab management program that would cost an arm and a leg to replace/if replaceable at all [some medical devices are not made any more but are still in use in many doctors offices]). Public hospitals are even worse off in terms of funding and unless serious help from the government is forthcoming are almost certain to be unable to upgrade to something that doesn't require an ancient TTY 33A, DEC VT100 or something like that to be connected (they are physically incapable of interfacing to anything else). A good case in point is the "new improved" ventilators that Trump sent to Elmhurst Hospital (here in Queens) where incompatible with the pre-HL7 EMR they had and that's why the governor had to ask for more (and agent orange haid [Trump] refused because he has the same "newer is better" attitude you have... oh and he is also an all around idiot). TL;dr -- You often have very little if any choice IRL about what tech is actually in place and 24x80 is a universal lowest common denominator and thus it should be kept. -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org