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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:09:01 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
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On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Peter Jeremy via COFF wrote:

> Since no-one has mentioned it, the reason why Fortran and Cobol ignore 
> columns 73-80 goes back to the IBM 711 card reader - which could read 
> any (but usually configured for the first) 72 columns into pairs of 
> 36-bit words in an IBM 701.

I'll be damned...  So obvious when it's pointed out!

-- Dave