Periodically, the kernel developers debate something everyone generally
takes for granted, such as the length of a line of text. Personally, I like
lines of text to reach both sides of my screen—it's just a question of
not wasting space.
Alastair D'Silva recently agreed with me. He felt that monitor sizes and
screen resolution had gotten so big in recent years, that the kernel should
start allowing more data onto a single line of text. It was simple
pragmatism—more visible text means more opportunity to spot the bug in a
data dump.