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Well, the C64 had a 40 column display width for the BASIC interpreter, but I think it was possible to have statements that wrapped and could go up to 80 charact
by u801e 6y ago
Well, the C64 had a 40 column display width for the BASIC interpreter, but I think it was possible to have statements that wrapped and could go up to 80 characters (I may be wrong about that though).
- winrid 6y agoThe more you know! Thanks.
- saalweachter 6y agoThe VT100 is commonly considered the origin of the standard terminal size, although I've seen pedantic historians take it several steps further and sideways.
- ken 6y agoUp to 79 characters, including the line number. Interestingly, this was basically (ha) an editor limitation, not a language one. You could use 2-letter abbreviations for the language's reserved words to cram more code into the same space. The programs were stored (IIRC) in tokenized form.