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Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sun, 01 December 2019 23:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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On Dec 1, 2019, at 20:09, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> 
> I thought it was 72 characters because that's how many you got on a
> punch card, leaving 8 for the sequence number.

More likely, it’s 72 characters for the line width of a Model 33 Teletype (a.k.a. ASR-33/KSR-33).
Not everyone had a line printer or a card reader!

Grüße, Carsten

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