It is time for me to re-do my old thread about the origins of "80 columns" and how it can very well be related to pretty ancient stuff, not dissimilar to "space shuttle and horse's rear end".

As you know, the default mode on IBM PCs is text 80x25. The limitation of 80 columns per line, also known as "80 column rule" is still widespread; for example, that's the rule for Linux kernel. But why 80? Why not 70 or 90?

The answer to that is usually "IBM punch cards are 80 characters wide", but things are more interesting than that!

First, the commonly accepted column width was supposed to be 72. American typewriters used to have just 72 columns, earlier DEC terminals supported only 72 columns, and even IBM punch cards had only 72 columns for text.

Second, yes, IBM punch cards were 80 characters wide, but why?

The planned changes are coming in two stages. Initially, the imminent Fedora 36 release will remove the old fbdev driver, leaving only DRM and KMS. Then for Fedora 37, which is due later this year, it's proposed that the driver be removed from the X.org server as well.

The kernel's fbdev device has been deprecated since 2015. It's a very old-fashioned mechanism for the kernel to display graphics on the system console, which was introduced in kernel 2.1.109 back in 1999.

A visible use was the Tux logo that some distros display with the kernel messages during startup. It did have other uses, though, such as the ability to display software-defined fonts on the console, handy for those who use characters, or entire alphabets, not covered by the PC's character set. Last century, it was also used on some computers that don't have a native text mode, such as early Macintosh models.
Out of the frame

The functionality is not disappearing. What is going is the software and drivers that enable the kernel to do this directly. They will be replaced by a new driver called simpledrm, which emulates the old framebuffer. It sets up the display using KMS, which all distros have used for many years.

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