If I remember correctly, DEC, Tektronix, Honeywell, Qume and other real terminals moved to 110 characters per line in their later generation terminals. Coming

If I remember correctly, DEC, Tektronix, Honeywell, Qume and other real terminals moved to 110 characters per line in their later generation terminals. Coming from the perspective of that era I never understood the obsession with 80 characters per line. I can honestly say that I have never limited my code through such artifice, ever. I can give examples of code where artificially breaking things into 80 characters makes an absolute mess out of things. Complex table-driven state machine lookup tables and FPGA I/O definitions come to mind, among others.