>>> Since ya gots to put in those delimiters, ya gots to put 'em 'somewhere'
>>> so
>> why not every 80 or 128 characters?
>>
>> Probably because punch cards (remember those?) has 80 columns ;-)
>
> Of course I remember those. My first first computer program was written
> (??)
> on 80-column punch cards
>
>> If punch cards were 20% larger, we would probably have 100 character
>> blocking...
>
> You don't remember the 128-column punch cards? The little ones?
> Ha! It was a 96 column card ;-)
Duh. I must have run out of fingers to count on that day.
MCM
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