That would by the 24x80 terminals attached to most mainframes in the 1980's....
Before that the limit was 72 characters because of punch cards (and you left column 1 blank because that was used for line continuation) and columns 73-80 were for sequencing after the class bully tripped you up in the hallway and you dumped your three boxes of punch cards all over the floor..... On 9/21/10 9:35 AM, Marc Farnum Rendino wrote: > And where, class, did the 80 character limit come from?... -- Frank Swasey | http://www.uvm.edu/~fcs Sr Systems Administrator | Always remember: You are UNIQUE, University of Vermont | just like everyone else. "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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