[COFF] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Peter Jeremy via COFF wrote:

> Since no-one has mentioned it, the reason why Fortran and Cobol ignore 
> columns 73-80 goes back to the IBM 711 card reader - which could read 
> any (but usually configured for the first) 72 columns into pairs of 
> 36-bit words in an IBM 701.

I'll be damned...  So obvious when it's pointed out!

-- Dave