The terminals connected to my university's Burroughs 6700 mainframe in 1981 had a 8080 processor in them and there was an escape sequence that allowed you to ty

The terminals connected to my university's Burroughs 6700 mainframe in 1981 had a 8080 processor in them and there was an escape sequence that allowed you to type some hex code into the input buffer and run it. So of course I did Life. It was probably more than 32 bytes but not much larger as I was able to memorize the hex. It wasn't quite right since it used the updated values for half of the neighbors due to the lack of double buffering.