4 ms·
They were sent over a network. Every baud counts. And then the output had to have a fixed width (not necessarily a fixed length, since it may have been printed
by s3m4j 8y ago
They were sent over a network. Every baud counts. And then the output had to have a fixed width (not necessarily a fixed length, since it may have been printed on paper) because of "display" size.
- federicoponzi 8y ago^ This, and also because the keyboards back then were very hard to type on.