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Web sites running on Mainframe, OS390. If any line of code/HTML is longer than 80 chars, it only reads the first line then stops. Because punch cards only took
by CapitalistCartr 5y ago
Web sites running on Mainframe, OS390. If any line of code/HTML is longer than 80 chars, it only reads the first line then stops. Because punch cards only took 80 chars.
- zh3 5y agoFortran had a 72-column limit on punch cards (the last 8 columns were used to number the cards in the deck). Even when we got VT100's there was some caution about going past column 72 (ISTR some of the VDU's would have a marker at column 72, possibly the compiler gave a warning too).
- kspacewalk2 5y agoI want to visit this site and marvel at this achievement.
- scohesc 5y agoThat is amazing. I love quirky old tech-debt that people still work around. It means there's either a sysadmin that is super into it and knows everything from inside-out, or they're a sysadmin that's pulled all their hair out but damned if they don't keep it running!